Iranian missiles<\/a> hit the Ras Laffan Industrial City, which processes about a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas, in response to Israel’s bombing of Iran’s major gas field. Saudi Arabia’s back-up oil port on the Red Sea was also attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe seemingly precise strikes were a dramatic demonstration of Iran’s continuing ability to exact a heavy price for the U.S.-Israeli campaign and the limits of air defences to protect one of the Gulf region’s most valuable and strategic assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They also suggested a lack of coordination of strategy and war aims between the two main \u200baggressors almost three weeks into the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Reuters) DOHA\/RIYADH, March 19 – European countries scrambled to cushion the impact of soaring \u200boil prices on Thursday after tit-for-tat strikes on Gulf energy plants, including the world’s largest gas plant in Qatar – the most economically significant escalation of the U.S.-Israeli\u00a0war on Iran. State oil giant QatarEnergy reported “extensive \u200cdamage” after Iranian missiles hit the Ras Laffan Industrial City, which processes about a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas, in response to Israel’s bombing of Iran’s major gas field. Saudi Arabia’s back-up oil port on the Red Sea was also attacked. The seemingly precise strikes were a dramatic demonstration of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55587,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55585\/revisions\/55587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}