00:00Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will hold off on further attacks against Iranian
00:05energy sites at the direct request of U.S. President Donald Trump. The announcement comes
00:11after a massive Israeli strike on Wednesday on Iran's South Pass gas field, a move that
00:17has sent global energy markets into a tailspin. Netanyahu added that Israel acted alone in
00:26striking Iran's gas field, which supplies around 70 percent of the country's domestic needs.
00:32Nearly three weeks into the Iran war launched by Israel and the U.S., Netanyahu claimed Tehran
00:38no longer had the capacity to enrich uranium or manufacture ballistic missiles. He also declared
00:44the war would end faster than expected but did not provide a time frame. Wednesday's attack marked a
00:50significant escalation in the war. The Iranian military threatened complete destruction of
00:55Gulf energy infrastructure if Israel carried out another strike on its energy facilities.
01:01Energy markets have already been left reeling by Tehran's retaliatory attack on the world's
01:06largest LNG plant in Qatar as well as refineries in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Qatar's energy minister
01:13said its LNG export capacity will be reduced by 17 percent over the next five years as a result of
01:20the
01:20strikes.
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