Qatar Secretly Offered to Halt Gas Output to Pressure US Into Iran Deal

🛢️ DOHA — Qatar threatened to cut its own gas to stop a war it couldn't fight. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Doha offering to self-sanction LNG — its entire economic lifeline — reveals how exposed Qatar felt to Iranian retaliation and how little faith it had in US protection. The leverage target was Washington, not Tehran: starve Europe of Qatari gas to force a ceasefire. It reframes Qatar's mediation role as survival strategy, not diplomacy.