Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country’s Defense Forces (IDF) will no longer attack key Iranian energy infrastructure, following a request made by United States President Donald Trump.
“President Trump asked us to suspend future attacks, and we are suspending them,” Netanyahu said at a press conference on Thursday (19).
The American president’s request was made after the IDF carried out new air strikes this week on the important South Pars gas field in Iran, the largest installation of its kind in the world, which is shared with Qatar. The action moved global energy markets.
Yesterday, Trump had stated that he spoke to Netanyahu to ask him to stop the attacks on Iran’s energy facilities. “I told him: don’t do it. And he won’t do it,” declared the American president.
Netanyahu said at the press conference that Israel “acted alone” in the attack on the South Pars gas field infrastructure, but an Israeli source told CNN that the action was coordinated with the US, while an American source reported that Washington had been “informed” in advance about the attack.
