Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš described the Israeli attack on an important gas deposit in the south of Iran as incomprehensible. He described the situation as very bad and emphasized that the price of both gas and oil is rising as a result of the attacks in the Middle East. He said this on Thursday at a press briefing before leaving for the EU summit in Brussels, reports TASR correspondent in Prague.
“This thing is totally destroying the markets. The price of gas is exploding… And even yesterday, before the attack, we thought that fuel prices in the Czech Republic had reached their peak and that, on the contrary, there was a chance to reduce them. After that attack by Israel, which is incomprehensible, the situation changed completely“, said Babiš. The price of gas for the European market exceeded 70 euros per MWh on Thursday morning.
The Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, Petr Macinka, said on the ČT24 Interview program on Wednesday that the Czech government has a tool at its disposal that could help the Czechs in connection with fuel. However, he did not want to say what kind of instrument it was. He responded to the question of whether the Czech Republic is planning a similar restriction as Slovakia, which temporarily limited the volume of diesel that can be filled at gas stations in Slovakia and whether it is exported.
Iran’s state television reported on Wednesday that the United States and Israel had struck the major South Pars gas infrastructure in southern Iran on the Persian Gulf coast.. American President Donald Trump later stated on the social platform Truth Social that the United States did not know about the attack and was not involved in it in any way, nor was Qatar, whose gas facilities were attacked by Iran in retaliation. Trump emphasized that Israel will not carry out such attacks again, but if Iran attacks an innocent country like Qatar again, the US will “blow up” the entire South Pars gas field.
The South Pars gas field is the largest known natural gas field in the world and is located in the territorial waters of Iran and Qatar. 70 percent of Iran’s production is mined there.
