Iran launches new missile attack on world’s largest LNG facility in Qatar

Iranian missiles caused damage to Qatar’s main liquefied natural gas facility, as announced by the emirate in the early morning hours. This marks a new attack, as the facility had already been targeted yesterday.

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Iran strikes world’s largest LNG facility in Qatar again

Specifically, QatarEnergy announced that its liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities in Ras Laffan came under missile attack in the early morning hours, resulting in “major fires” and causing “extensive additional damage.” As the Qatari company stated via platform “X”: “Emergency response teams were immediately deployed to contain the damage” and “no casualties have been reported.”

For its part, the emirate’s defense ministry commented via a post on platform “X”: “The State of Qatar was targeted by ballistic missiles launched from Iran, which targeted Ras Laffan Industrial City and caused damage.”

It should be noted that Iran had threatened to target energy facilities in Gulf countries in retaliation for American-Israeli strikes against its own infrastructure. Iranian state television reported in the early morning hours that a missile hit a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Qatar, which had already sustained damage yesterday. “The refinery at Ras Laffan in Qatar was hit by a missile again and is burning,” the IRIB network reported via Telegram.

Later, Qatar’s Interior Ministry stated that civil defense has now “brought two of the three fires in the Ras Laffan Industrial Area under control, with no injuries reported.”