Iranian state media reported that facilities linked to the country’s major offshore South Pars gas field came under attack today.
Both state television and State news agency said the strike targeted facilities at Asaluyeh, located in Iran’s southern Bushehr province, though no further details were immediately provided. South Pars is the world largest natural gas field, with both Qatar and Iran operating facilities on it.
It remains unclear whether Israel or the United States had carried out the latest strike. However, U.S. has been operating primarily in southern Iran. The United States previously attacked Iran’s main oil terminal Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
Iran has threatened to attack energy infrastructure across the Gulf region in retaliation for Israeli strikes on its largest gasfield, the first targeted attacks on its fossil fuel production since the war began.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have threatened counterstrikes on several energy facilities across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar “in the coming hours” after state media reports that missiles had targeted its gas facilities at the giant South Pars field, the largest gas reserves in the world.
The strikes on Iran’s South Pars gasfield, which it shares with Qatar, were widely reported in Israeli media to have been carried out by Israel with the consent of the US.