Days before the strike, Damietta appeared on a map of potential targets broadcast by Iranian state television, under the headline “What could be the targets of Iran’s revenge against Ukraine?” The accompanying text described the port’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility as having an annual capacity of 5.2 million tons and serving as a gateway for gas exports to Europe. He expected the government to describe the Damietta attack in terms that avoid drawing Egypt into the US war with Iran. The attack may reduce Egypt’s LNG import and regasification flexibility rather than its export capacity, although the operational consequences remain unclear. She said Egypt “demonstrated flawed defense of critical energy infrastructure,” and called the strike a wake-up call for Egyptian defense in general.