Shrapnel from an Iranian rocket interception landed on Israel’s main oil refinery complex in Haifa bay on Thursday night. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/GettyUS president Donald Trump said on Thursday he had told Israel not to repeat its attacks on Iranian natural gas infrastructure as tit-for-tat strikes on energy ​plants sent energy prices spiralling, sharply escalating the US-Israeli war on Iran. Amid conflicting reports surrounding Wednesday’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gasfield by Israel, Trump claimed that he did not know in advance about the attack. She confirmed that Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was severely injured in an Israeli strike, adding that his current status remains “unclear”. Israeli strikes continued across Lebanon on Thursday with Hizbullah firing rockets and launching attack drones into Israel.

Source: The Irish Times March 20, 2026 12:52 UTC