India, March 20 -- US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to repeat the attacks on Iranian natural gas infrastructure, as the counterattacks from Tehran sent energy prices spiralling.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday during his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Trump said he told Netanyahu not to launch similar attacks. "I told him, don't do that, and he won't do that," Reuters quoted Trump as saying.

In a social media post, Trump on Wednesday wrote that he "knew nothing about this particular attack."

These comments by Trump come after Israel launched an air strike on South Pars, which is Iran's part of the world's largest gas field, e...