QatarEnergy CEO Saad al-Kaabi says Iran’s attacks have damaged facilities that produce 17 per cent of the company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, and that it will take three to five years to repair them, Al Jazeera reports.

“I never ⁠in my wildest ⁠dreams would have thought that Qatar would be — Qatar and ⁠the region — in such an ⁠attack, especially from a ⁠brotherly Muslim country in the month of Ramadan, attacking us ‌in this way,” he said.

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