Israel has just set off a chain reaction that will set the Gulf on fire

Facing a struggle for survival, Iran is making world’s entire energy economy its battleground

By March 19, 2026, the pattern is unmistakable. What began as a war centered on Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and the waters around the Strait of Hormuz has now spilled decisively into the infrastructure heart of the Gulf monarchies.

The most firmly established Iranian strike on Gulf energy infrastructure so far is the missile attack on Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial complex, the largest LNG hub on earth, carried out after Israel struck Iran’s South Pars gas field. At the same time, earlier Iranian retaliatory waves had already hit or endangered critical…

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