BATTLEFORWORLD.COM | March 19, 2026: President Donald Trump in a Truth Social posting calls on Israel to halt South Pars strikes as energy prices spike. The soaring oil and gas prices after Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field - Trump rushed to play peacemaker.

“The United States knew nothing about this particular attack,” Trump wrote. “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field,” he declared, apparently warning the Zionist honcho Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Not so fast, because all that talk is to make Trump look innocent and peace-like. - Geopolitical expert Yeghia Tashjian of the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut tells Sputnik news that the US may have been informed about the Israeli bombing of the Iranian South Pars gas field. Imagine that. – "When it comes to major Israeli operations – especially those with regional escalation risks – the level of coordination with the US, particularly CENTCOM, is typically very high," Tashjian noted. However adds, that sometimes Israel only notifies Washington DC at the eleventh hour. – The attack carried out by Israeli was mostly likely planned by both the US and Israel, according to Dr. Mamdouh Salameh, an international oil economist and a global energy expert. – And one of the objectives is "to ...

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