Netanyahu wants oil, gas to flow through Israel post-Iran war

Source: msn/Reuters

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JERUSALEM, March 19 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he believes pipelines should be built to transport Middle East oil and gas across the Arabian Peninsula and up to Israeli ports to avoid threats by Iran in the Hormuz Strait and other Gulf waters.

A day after Israel attacked Iran's main gas field in a sharp escalation of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Netanyahu told a press conference that Tehran no longer has the capacity to enrich uranium, a claim that has been contested by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog.

Netanyahu sought during the 45-minute event to defend his country's military operations even as its attacks on Iran's South Pars field inspired tit-for-tat strikes on energy ​plants across the Gulf, sending energy prices spiralling.

NETANYAHU SAYS TRUMP ASKED HIM TO HALT FUTURE GAS ATTACKS

Asked by a reporter about the South Pars attack, Netanyahu said that Israel had acted alone. "President Trump asked us to hold off on future attacks," he said. Trump, politically vulnerable to rising ​fuel prices among his core voters, has lashed out at allies who have responded cautiously to his demands that they help secure the Strait of Hormuz, the conduit for around a fifth of the world's ​oil.

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