Despite Trump comments, Israeli officials say US knew of Iran gas field strike

Israel’s attack on an Iranian gas field on Wednesday was coordinated with the United States but will likely not be repeated, three Israeli officials said on Thursday, despite US President Donald Trump saying he knew nothing about it. The attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field drew an Iranian aerial assault on energy infrastructure in Qatar and across the Middle East, marking the biggest escalation in the nearly three-week US-Israeli war on Iran. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Israel has not publicly acknowledged responsibility for the South Pars attack. On Wednesday night, Trump said in a social media post that Washington “knew nothing about this particular attack” and that Israel would not attack the gas field further unless Iran again attacked Qatar. The three Israeli officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Israel was not surprised by Trump’s comments. They described the dynamic as similar to one that played out