Iran Hits Trump & Netanyahu’s Weak Spot; Israelis Head for the Exits

Israel hit South Pars and Iran hit back where it hurts most - triggering splits between Trump & Netanyahu and Israelis heading for the exits. Right, so Israel as we now know hit Iran’s biggest gas field, the South Pars field down on the Gulf coast, the one that supplies most of Iran’s domestic gas and sits inside the same wider field that Qatar depends on too, hurting their supposed ally and making a mockery of normalisation with Israel and those Abraham Accords, as I went into yesterday. Of course Iran Was never going to let that go. Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility has now been hit, Saudi sites reported hit or targeted included Ras Tanura, Shaybah, and an unnamed eastern gas facility; in the UAE, the reported sites were Fujairah’s industrial/export zone and the Shah gas field. Iran also hit Haifa’s energy infrastructure - first a power station, then the Bazan oil refining facilities in Haifa Bay, with fires, outages and infrastructure damage reported. And as for Donald Trump, who loves acting like the sheriff right up until the petrol pump starts talking back, triggering an attack of the old bone spurs, has it seems had to start putting the brakes on Benjamin Netanyahu over further attacks on gas infrastructure. Netanyahu, the AI version of him, or the real thing, who frankly cares anymore? Has therefore tried to widen the war in his desperation with a hit on the largest natural gas field on Earth, and the result has not been a clear show of Israeli dominance, nor a calm submission by Iran, as if that was ever likely, but a regional panic that has put the entire Gulf order and the Abraham Accords paperwork on the table with a big old pair of scissors looking more attractive to even more states. Trump has then made this apparent split with Netanyahu visible enough that even the most fervent of Zionist loyalists can’t fail to see it.