Israel unleashes war on energy production and new Gulf fury at Iran

Israel unleashes war on energy production and new Gulf fury at Iran Submitted by Sean Mathews on Wed, 03/18/2026 - 20:49 Iran launched ballistic missiles at Riyadh while Arab and Muslim diplomats gathered in the capital, and attacked a gas facility in Qatar A picture shows a view of phase 12 of the South Pars gas field facilities near the southern Iranian town of Kangan on the shore of the Gulf, on 22 January 2014 (Behrouz Mehri/AFP) Off Iran launched ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia's capital as senior Muslim and Arab diplomats were meeting in Riyadh, and damaged a natural gas facility in Qatar on Wednesday, in a sign that the US-Israeli war on Iran is spiralling into a no-holds-barred conflict. Iran’s attacks on the Gulf were a reprisal against Israel's strike on Iran’s half of South Pars, the world’s largest gas field that the Islamic Republic shares with Qatar. Gulf states rushed to condemn the initial Israeli attack that prompted Iran’s retaliation, but responded with fury at Iran.