India, March 20 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that he would hold off any future attacks on Iranian offshore gas fields, dialling down after Tehran intensified attacks on oil and natural gas facilities around the Gulf.

Iran's retaliation for Israel's attack on its South Pars gas field sent fuel prices soaring even higher amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported. Israel's attack on the South Pars gas field and Tehran's subsequent retaliation on fuel infrastructure around West Asia risked drawing Iran's Arab neighbours directly into the conflict.

Benjamin Netanyahu said late Thursday that, at the request of President Donald Trump, ...