Trump claimed on Truth Social that he had known nothing about the targeting of Iran\u2019s gas reserves in advance \u2013 key US politics stories from 19 March 2026 at a glance<\/p>\n
The US-Israeli war<\/a> against Iran has exposed further divisions between the two countries after an Israeli strike on Iran\u2019s largest gasfield angered US allies in the Gulf<\/a> and prompted Donald Trump to say he knew nothing in advance about the attack \u2013 a claim that Israeli officials disputed.<\/p>\n Speaking in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said he had spoken to Benjamin Netanyahu following the strikes on Iran\u2019s South Pars gasfield \u2013 part of a reserve shared with Qatar \u2013 and had told the Israeli prime minister to refrain from further attacks that could escalate a regional war on energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump claimed on Truth Social that he had known nothing about the targeting of Iran\u2019s gas reserves in advance \u2013 key US politics stories from 19 March 2026 at a glance The US-Israeli war against Iran has exposed further divisions between the two countries after an Israeli strike on Iran\u2019s largest gasfield angered US allies … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}