Live updates: Trump says 'very good' Iran talks, hints at 'total resolution'

Qatar's state energy company, QatarEnergy, said that the missile strikes on its Ras Laffan terminal on Wednesday knocked out 17% of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity.

The strikes caused an estimated loss of $20 billion in annual revenue and is expected to take up to five years to repair, officials said.

The terminal is the world's largest and is responsible for a fifth of global LNG exports.

"This was an attack on all of us who stand for development and human progress that is sustained by a fair, reliable, and secure access to energy," Qatar's minister of energy said in a statement confirming the damage.

Answering questions from reporters on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu denied pressuring the U.S. government into war with Iran and spoke out about the cost of the conflict in American lives and the impact on the global economy.

"Prime Minister -- given the escalation of attacks on U.S. allies across the Gulf, given the spiraling energy costs, the high costs in general, the U.S. service personnel killed in this war -- many Americans are asking that question, whether you misled their government into starting this war, and for how long should Americans keep paying the price?" ABC News' Tom Soufi Burridge asked Netanyahu.

"I misled no one", Netanyahu replied. "I didn't have to convince President Trump to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear program, putting it underground and being able to launch nuclear tipped missiles at the United States."

Netanyahu added: "He understood that. He explained it to me. I didn't explain it to him, and I think that our partnership is the only way to avoid this catastrophic development."

Netanyahu then paid tribute to the lives of U.S. service personnel lost in the war.

"Freedom is precious," he said, adding that it "has its cost, but if you're not prepared to defend it, if you're not prepared to resist the tyrannies that are trying to arm themselves with the weapons of mass death, you will have no future."

The prime minister then addressed rising oil prices, and claimed the current increase was "a spike."

"It goes up and goes down," he added. "The Americans are working very hard, and we're trying to help them in every way that we can, to open the Straits of Hormuz. And if they succeed, which I think they will, then oil prices will come down."

Regarding the strike on the Iranian gas field on Wednesday, which drew a reaction from Trump, Netanyahu said: "Israel acted alone against the Asaluyeh gas compound. Fact No. 2, President Trump asked us to hold off on future attacks and we're holding out."

An Air Force F-35 plane that conducted an emergency landing just before midnight Wednesday is believed to have been struck by Iranian fire, according to a source familiar with the incident.

The stealth plane landed after flying a combat mission over Iran, according to Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesperson.

This is the first time that an American military aircraft involved in the air operations over Iran has been hit by Iranian fire.

In the latest effort to ease spiking oil prices, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the U.S. might lift sanctions on Iranian oil that's already out at sea.

"In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels," Bessent said in an interview Thursday on Fox Business.

This would be a major reversal in U.S. policy, which has sanctioned Iranian oil for decades. And, in the middle of the war, it would mean Iran stands to make more money by selling its oil to the highest bidder.

Analysts say Iran has actually increased its own volume of oil exports since the start of the war, because Iranian tankers have been able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Bessent said the Iranian oil would have been going to China. He suggested the sanctions waiver would reduce oil prices because it could go elsewhere and add more global supply to the market. ABC News has asked the Treasury Department for more clarity on how exactly that would work.

"In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or or 14 days as we continue this campaign. So we have, we have lots of levers. We've got plenty more that we can do," Bessent added.