Qatar Finance Minister Warns Iran War Could Trigger Global Energy Shock

The core claim is strongly supported by Anadolu's report 'Qatar warns wider economic fallout from Iran war still ahead if Hormuz stays closed,' which directly attributes to Qatar's finance minister the warning that prolonged Strait of Hormuz closures and trade restrictions would worsen the economic fallout and states that Ras Laffan damage could take around five years to fully restore. Reuters' 'How the US-Israeli war with Iran is disrupting oil and gas' independently supports the broader proposition that Strait of Hormuz disruption and attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure could create a global energy shock. Al Jazeera's 'Iran warns it will show ‘zero restraint’ if infrastructure attacked again' further supports the specific Ras Laffan recovery timeline, citing damage that could sideline LNG production for three to five years. The main limitation is that the exact user-linked X post could not be fetched, and the Odaily link did not yield a traceable upstream source in this run.