Iran launched an assault on the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Monday, two days after the U.S. struck three nuclear websites in Iran.
Explosions have been heard in Qatar, a number of information companies reported, and images confirmed missiles over Qatar’s capital metropolis, Doha. U.S. and Qatari authorities mentioned the missiles have been intercepted and nobody was injured.
President Trump has indicated that the U.S. was given prior warning of the Iranian strike.
U.S. Central Command mentioned, “U.S. forces, alongside our Qatari companions, efficiently defended towards an Iranian ballistic missile assault concentrating on Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base close to Doha, Qatar,” utilizing “U.S. and Qatari Patriot batteries.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps mentioned it focused the U.S. base at Al Udeid in Qatar with a “devastating and highly effective missile.” Iranian state media earlier introduced an operation launching missile assaults towards U.S. bases named “Annunciation of Victory.”
Mr. Trump referred to as the assault by Iran “a really weak response” that the U.S. anticipated and “very successfully countered.” He mentioned in a pair of social media posts that 14 missiles have been fired, and no People or Qataris have been harmed.
“Most significantly, they’ve gotten all of it out of their ‘system,’ and there’ll, hopefully, be no additional HATE,” Mr. Trump wrote. “I need to thank Iran for giving us early discover, which made it doable for no lives to be misplaced, and no person to be injured. Maybe Iran can now proceed to Peace and Concord within the Area, and I’ll enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the identical.”
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The president prolonged gratitude to Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani “for all that he has achieved in searching for Peace for the Area.”
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme chief, wrote in a put up on X: “We did not hurt anybody. And we is not going to settle for any harassment from anybody below any circumstances. And we is not going to undergo anybody’s harassment; That is the logic of the Iranian nation,” in keeping with an automatic translation. The message was accompanied by an illustration of a burning and tattered American flag on a wrecked army base.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps mentioned it focused the U.S. base at Al Udeid in Qatar with a “devastating and highly effective missile.” Iranian state media earlier introduced an operation launching missile assaults towards U.S. bases named “Annunciation of Victory.”
A U.S. protection official confirmed that the bottom was attacked by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originating from Iran.
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The Qatari authorities mentioned its air defenses “thwarted the assault and efficiently intercepted the Iranian missiles.”
“The State of Qatar strongly condemns the assault that focused Al-Udeid Air Base by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. We take into account this a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the State of Qatar, its airspace, worldwide regulation, and the United Nations Constitution,” a spokesperson for the Qatari Ministry of Overseas Affairs mentioned in a assertion shared on social media. “We affirm that Qatar reserves the precise to reply straight in a way equal with the character and scale of this brazen aggression, in step with worldwide regulation.”
Al Udeid Air Base is southwest of Doha and serves because the ahead headquarters for CENTCOM. 1000’s of U.S. troops are primarily based there.
Earlier Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Qatar warned People to shelter in place “till additional discover.” The shelter-in-place order has now been lifted. Qatar’s international ministry mentioned the nation was closing its airspace “to make sure the security of residents, residents, and guests.”
Air raid sirens additionally sounded in Bahrain, which introduced the short-term closure of its airspace on Monday. Bahrain is residence to a U.S. naval base that serves because the headquarters of the U.S. fifth Fleet. An estimated 9,000 service members are stationed there. Bahrain’s Ministry of Inside urged folks to “stay calm and head to the closest protected place,” including that they ought to “search shelter within the nearest constructing or take cowl in a protected, enclosed space till the hazard has handed.”
U.S. and Qatari officers had conferences over the weekend and Monday morning to arrange for this assault, in keeping with diplomatic sources, who mentioned the retaliation was anticipated and calibrated.
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The U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear websites over the weekend. It got here after greater than every week of Israeli assaults on Iranian targets and Iranian strikes on Israel.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps mentioned Sunday that the U.S. had “virtually positioned itself on the forefront of aggression by straight attacking peaceable services.” It alluded to plans to assault U.S. property within the Center East, saying “the quantity, dispersion, and dimension of U.S. army bases within the area should not a power, however have doubled their vulnerability.”
All U.S. Home and Senate members are anticipated to obtain labeled briefings Wednesday on Iran and the U.S. army response.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, instructed reporters Monday that Mr. Trump “made an analysis that the hazard was imminent sufficient to take his authority as commander in chief and make that call.”
Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, questioned the president’s actions, saying in a letter to Home Democrats that Mr. Trump has “not offered any proof to Congress that Iran posed an imminent risk that required quick and offensive army motion.”
“The usage of army power, which is offensive in nature, have to be accepted by the Home and the Senate,” Jeffries instructed reporters in a information convention on Capitol Hill Monday afternoon. “That is in keeping with the Structure. It is not non-obligatory, Donald. It is not.”
Iran’s retaliatory strike bolstered calls from some lawmakers for Congress to intervene and assert congressional authority. Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who launched a decision final week geared toward stopping U.S. strikes, reiterated Monday his perception that the Conflict Powers Act requires the president to withdraw from hostilities in Iran inside 60 days.
“Whether or not you prefer it or not Congress can be voting on U.S. hostilities in Iran,” Massie wrote on social media, noting that 57 lawmakers have signed onto his decision.
However Johnson mentioned, “I do not assume that is the suitable time for a battle powers decision.”
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