Israel launched another attack on Iran’s South Pars petrochemical facility on Monday, striking the world’s largest natural gas field for the second time since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed the strike, announcing the country’s military “carried out a powerful strike on the largest petrochemical facility in Iran, located in Asaluyeh, a central target responsible for about 50% of the country’s petrochemical production.”
This is the second known Israeli military attack on the energy facility, which is critical to an Iranian energy supply that uses natural gas to power about 86% of its electricity. South Pars fuels about 80% of the natural gas that powers Iran’s electric grid. Located in the Persian Gulf, South Pars is jointly owned by Qatar.
The last time Israel attacked South Pars as part of Operation Roaring Lion, President Donald Trump wrote a scathing Truth Social post in which he said the U.S. “knew nothing about this particular attack.”
“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar – In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before,” Trump posted on March 18, following Israel’s first attack on South Pars.
The Monday strike on the facility is significant in its timing, as it comes just one day before the deadline Trump gave Iran to strike a peace deal or reopen the Strait of Hormuz before the United States resumes attacks on the country’s power plant infrastructure.
The Israeli military attacked Iran’s most critical natural gas infrastructure and claimed credit for the “powerful strike” as this crucial deadline for de-escalation of the war hangs in the air.
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The Washington Examiner has reached out to the White House for comment on the South Pars strike.
The strike came as part of an Israeli aerial offensive on Monday that also targeted and took out the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s chief of intelligence, Majid Khademi, and commander of the Guard’s Quds Force’s clandestine Unit 840, Asghar Bakri.
