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'Huge escalation': Qatar-based journalist Courtney Hammond on Iran war widening

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 20 Mar 2026, 6:56pm
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'Huge escalation': Qatar-based journalist Courtney Hammond on Iran war widening

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 20 Mar 2026, 6:56pm

Iran has targeting energy facilities across the Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar in response to an Israeli attack on Iran's South Pars gas field - the largest natural gas field in the world. 

It is believed that 17% of Qatar's export capacity has now been wiped out, and could take up to five years to repair.

Qatar-based journalist Courtney Hammond said the attack in Qatar "marks a huge escalation in this war."

She told Andrew Dickens that there are concerns of retaliation from the targeted states as energy facilities are a strong-hold of the Gulf countries' economies. 

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