Qatar has said that Iranian attacks on its main gas facility, situated on its north coast, are a “direct threat to its national security”, AFP reports.

“Qatar expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the brutal Iranian attack targeting Ras Laffan Industrial City … Qatar considers this assault a dangerous escalation, a flagrant violation of its sovereignty, and a direct threat to its national security,” the Gulf state’s foreign ministry has said in a statement.