US EditionIran Missile Strike Hits Qatar’s Ras Laffan, Igniting Fire at World’s Largest LNG Hub
An Iranian missile strike caused extensive damage and a fire at Ras Laffan LNG facility, leading to evacuations and halted production, QatarEnergy confirmed.
- On Wednesday, Iranian missile strikes hit Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City, causing "extensive damage" to the world's largest LNG production facility; QatarEnergy reported emergency teams contained fires with no casualties among personnel.
- Tehran vowed retaliation following Israeli strikes on Iran's South Pars gas field, which Iranian officials labeled a "full-scale economic war," prompting the cross-Gulf missile assault on Qatar.
- Benchmark Brent crude prices jumped around 5% to above $108 per barrel on Wednesday, reflecting market concerns that strikes on critical energy infrastructure threaten global supply stability.
- Qatar's foreign ministry declared Iranian military and security attaches persona non grata, ordering them to leave within 24 hours while condemning the strike as a "dangerous escalation" and direct threat to national security.
- Global energy security faces heightened risk as the U.S.-Israeli conflict continues, with Tehran shifting from limited confrontation to targeting energy assets and rattling Gulf Arab states previously uninvolved in regional wars.
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The night of Wednesday to Thursday was marked by new Iranian attacks on a major gas production site in Qatar, the second largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Iran "unwisely decides to attack an entirely innocent country, in this case Qatar", then "the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively destroy the entire South Pars gas deposit with a force and power that Iran has never seen or know…
The US President confirmed that Israel was behind the attack on Wednesday against the Iranian side of the offshore gas site in South Pars, in the Persian Gulf. In retaliation, Iran attacked the Qatari gas complex in Ras Laffan.
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Iran launched a major airstrike on Qatar's main gas field on Wednesday in response to a US and Israeli missile strike on its gas field, and also fired on a gas facility there on Thursday morning.
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