Saudi Aramco-Exxon refinery SAMREF in Saudi Arabia's Yanbu targeted, source says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz promised "significant surprises" to come after Iran's intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, was killed in an overnight strike.
41% : The United States was informed about Israel's plans to strike Iran's massive South Pars natural gas field, but did not take part in it, according to a person familiar with the matter.
40% : A day earlier, Israel killed top Iranian security official Ali Larijani and the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard's Basij force, Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani.
38% : Israel killed Iran's intelligence minister as it kept up its campaign against the Islamic Republic's top leadership and reportedly attacked an Iranian offshore natural gas field Wednesday, as the war escalated pressure on the region's economic lifeblood: energy.
34% : " Iran escalated strikes on its Persian Gulf neighbors' energy facilities, hitting gas facilities in Qatar after Israel launched an attack against Iran's South Pars offshore natural gas field in the Persian Gulf that it shares with Doha.
34% : Iran retaliated by unleashing missile strikes against Israel.
34% : Israel said an Iranian missile hit the occupied West Bank, marking the territory's first fatalities during the Iran war, though missile debris has damaged homes and businesses.
31% : Tehran also struck the Habshan gas facility and Bab field in the United Arab Emirates, which the government there called a "dangerous escalation" in the Islamic Republic's war against Israel and the United States.
9% : Trump says the US will retaliate if Iran attacks Qatar again President Donald Trump pledged that Israel would make no more attacks on Iran's major South Pars gas field, but if Iran attacked Qatar again, the U.S. would retaliate and "massively blow up the entirety" of the field.

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