JAKARTA - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, criticized French President Emmanuel Macron for not reacting to the attack on Iran's energy infrastructure, amid an escalation of the conflict involving the United States and Israel.
Macron previously said on social media that he had spoken to US President Donald Trump and Qatar Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani about Iran's attack on gas facilities in Qatar.
He called for a ban on attacks on civilian infrastructure.
However, Araghchi considered Macron's attitude to be inconsistent.
"Macron did not say a word to condemn the Israel-US war against Iran. He also did not condemn Israel when it blew up fuel tanks in Tehran that endangered millions of people. His concerns now appear after Iran retaliated. Sad!" he wrote on the X platform, as reported by ANTARA from Sputnik, Thursday, March 19.
On Wednesday, Qatar's state-owned energy company, QatarEnergy, reported missile attacks and fires in the Ras Laffan industrial area in the north of the country, which is the location of Qatar's largest liquefied natural gas production complex.
Iran has previously warned it would target energy infrastructure in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for Israeli and US attacks on the South Pars gas field.
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched an attack on a number of targets in Iran, including in Tehran, which caused damage and civilian casualties.
Iran then retaliated by attacking Israeli territory and US military facilities in the Middle East region.
At first, the US and Israel declared the attack a "preventive" measure against the threat of Iran's nuclear program. However, both later also expressed a desire to see a change of power in Iran.
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