“I told him, ‘Don’t do it.’ And he won’t do it,” Trump said.
He noted that the United States and Israel “act independently,” and Netanyahu sometimes “does things” that Trump doesn’t like.
“If I don’t like it, we don’t do it anymore,” he added.
On March 18, Israel attacked gas facilities at the South Pars field in Iran, damaging part of the infrastructure. In response, Iran attacked a liquefied natural gas production facility in Qatar. According to Trump, he allegedly did not know that Israel was planning the attack, but, according to The Wall Street Journal, he supported it as a response to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
CNN, citing a source in Israel familiar with the operation, reported that the attack was carried out in coordination with the United States, which contradicts the statements of the American president.
Context
Against the backdrop of the war between the United States and Israel with Iran, shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important routes for global oil trade, through which millions of barrels of crude oil and petroleum products pass from the Middle East to Asia, Europe and the United States every day, has practically stopped since March 1. Oil prices began to rise sharply.
After that the parties began to inflict mutual attacks on energy facilities of countries.
