The Latest: Trump Threatens to Strike World's Largest Gas Field if Iran Attacks Qatar Again

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52% : ▶ Read more Israel's military says it is striking northern Iran for the first time since the war began The military said it was launching the strikes based on naval and military intelligence.
47% : Israel had said that it detected a new missile launch from Iran targeting the country late Wednesday, and that its defense systems were working to intercept the threat.
45% : The center added, "Israel's target selection in this war has heavily focused on the institutions, leaders and infrastructure within Iran that have been used for domestic repression, aiming to shape the conditions ripe for successful anti-regime mobilization by Iranians.
44% : Latest reports of live fire Israel's military warned the public early Thursday of an incoming Iranian missile attack.
43% : Latest reports of live fire Israel warned the public of another Iranian missile salvo early Thursday morning.
42% : Democrats forced this vote mostly to bring up another debate on the war and force the Senate for a couple hours officially off the topic of a GOP push to impose strict voter identification requirements.
42% : The Israeli military said it had been a cluster munition that was not intercepted by Israel's air defense system and crashed into a structure.
40% : Analyst group calls gas field attack 'clear expansion' of war A New York-based think tank, the Soufan Center, described Israel's decision to attack the Iranian offshore natural gas field as "a clear expansion of the conflict.
39% : " More than 1 million people have been displaced in Lebanon by the renewed war between Israel and Hezbollah.
37% : Iran and Hezbollah also have been firing drones and missiles at Israel.
36% : Trump said in his post that the U.S. "knew nothing" about the attack, but a person familiar with the matter said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. was informed about Israel's plans to strike the gas field but did not take part.
36% : Trump said in his post that the U.S. "knew nothing" about the attack, but a person familiar with the matter said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. was informed about Israel's plans to strike the gas field but did not take part.
36% : Iran also had attacked 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, Qatar's capital.
30% : " Israel's medical service says man in South Sharon region killed by shrapnel Israel's Magen David Adom said early Thursday that a foreign worker in his 30s was killed by shrapnel wounds at a scene in the South Sharon region, where its paramedics responded.
30% : , Palestinian medics say The Palestinian Red Crescent says first responders were treating people for shrapnel wounds in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday night as Iran fired missiles toward Israel.
21% : Speaking on Tucker Carlson's show, Kent, who resigned this week, claimed Israel forced Trump's hand despite what he said was no evidence that Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. "A good deal of key decision makers were not allowed to come and express their opinion to the president," Kent told Carlson.
18% : Trump said Qatar "was in no way, shape, or form, involved" in Israel's attacks on Iran's gas field, but, "Unfortunately, Iran did not know this" and "unjustifiably and unfairly" attacked Qatar.
8% : Trump threatens to blow up South Pars gas field if Iran attacks Qatar again U.S. President Donald Trump pledged 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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