London (PP) — David Blair, chief foreign affairs correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, has warned that the escalating war between Iran and Israel now puts vital energy facilities across the Gulf at serious risk due to the war between Israel and Iran.
Mr Blair used the proverb “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” In a video explainer on the conflict, he argued that every Gulf country depends on huge but easy-to-damage oil and gas plants, which he described as their “exquisite glass houses”.
In the past, Iran and its neighbours avoided attacking each other’s energy sites to prevent economic disaster affecting everyone. That changed when Israel bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field. Iran fired ballistic missiles at Ras Laffan in Qatar, the world’s biggest gas processing and export centre.
Mr Blair said that if both sides carry on with attacking these key installations, the economies of the Gulf, and much of the world, would suffer badly. He hopes Israel, the United States and Iran will quietly agree to leave oil and gas facilities alone, but said that it is not certain this will happen.
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