A timeline of South Pars from its discovery and development as the Iranian half of the world’s largest gas field through phases of expansion, sanctions, infrastructure strain, and regional energy politics. The contained platform fire serves as a peg for tracing how a single giant field became central to Iran’s economy and vulnerable to operational and geopolitical shocks. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.