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Iran has said it launched an onslaught connected United States forces astatine Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar, aft Tehran said it would retaliate against the US strikes connected Iranian atomic sites, with the Qatari authorities saying missiles were successfully intercepted.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officially confirmed connected Monday that it launched a retaliatory rocket onslaught targeting the Al Udeid base, Iran’s Tasnim quality bureau reports. Tasnim said the cognition is called “Annunciation of Victory”.
US subject officials said that Al Udeid Air Base was the lone US subject basal targeted by Iran, according to the Reuters quality agency. The authoritative confirmed determination was nary interaction connected the basal conscionable extracurricular Qatar’s capital, Doha. A US defence authoritative added that “Al Udeid Air Base was attacked by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originating from Iran today”.
“At this time, determination are nary reports of US casualties. We are monitoring this concern intimately and volition supply much accusation arsenic it becomes available,” the authoritative said.
Following the attack, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said successful a station X that “we person not violated anyone’s rights, and we volition not nether immoderate circumstances judge immoderate usurpation against us, nor volition we surrender to anyone’s aggression; this is the logic of the Iranian nation.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi aboriginal added that the state is acceptable to respond again if the US takes immoderate further action, according to a connection posted connected Telegram.
United States President Donald Trump said Iran had “a precise anemic response” and thanked the country’s enactment for providing “early notice” of the retaliatory attack.
“I americium pleased to study that NO Americans were harmed, and hardly immoderate harm was done,” Trump posted connected Truth Social.
“Most importantly, they’ve gotten it each retired of their ‘system,’ and determination will, hopefully, beryllium nary further HATE. I privation to convey Iran for giving america aboriginal notice, which made it imaginable for nary lives to beryllium lost, and cipher to beryllium injured.”
Qatar condemns attacks
Flares were disposable implicit Qatar’s capital, Doha, connected Monday. It was initially not instantly known if this was the aerial defence strategy oregon missiles.
Loud explosions were besides heard, though truthful acold nary injuries person been reported. Qatar’s Ministry of Defence says its aerial defence systems successfully intercepted missiles targeting Al Udeid Air Base.
In a statement, the ministry said the incidental resulted successful nary deaths oregon injuries, crediting “the vigilance of the equipped forces and precautionary measures taken”.
Qatar has confirmed that a full of 19 missiles were fired from Iran. It added that lone 1 of those deed Al Udeid Air Base but caused nary casualties.
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi says it’s inactive uncertain whether Iran’s latest strikes people the extremity of its effect to US attacks connected its atomic facilities.
“Whether this volition beryllium the last attack, oregon if much are to come, is inactive unclear,” helium said. From Tehran’s perspective, determination whitethorn beryllium a consciousness that the concern is present balanced. But Iran besides views this arsenic portion of a larger, ongoing confrontation, Asadi added.
“The Iranians assertion that not lone the US, but besides European countries, are supplying Israel with the infrastructure and weaponry” utilized to onslaught Iranian targets. “So, from Iran’s constituent of view, it is portion of an ongoing conflict successful which it is being targeted connected a regular basis,” helium said.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said that the rocket onslaught against the Al Udeid Air Base was acold distant from residential areas successful Qatar.
“This enactment does not airs immoderate menace to the affable and brotherly country, Qatar, and its noble people, and the Islamic Republic of Iran remains committed to maintaining and continuing lukewarm and historical relations with Qatar,” the assembly said successful a statement.
Iran and Qatar bask fraternal relations, and the Qatari authorities has condemned some the Israeli and US attacks connected Iran.
Qatar, nevertheless, condemned the onslaught arsenic a blatant usurpation of its sovereignty.
Al Jazeera’s analogous Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Doha pursuing the Iranian attack, said, “People present person ne'er experienced this benignant of environment, truthful it was surely a precise melodramatic experience.”
“But it’s important to recognize that this was not intended to harm the civilian population, but it was a wide connection to the US authorities and subject that Iran has the capableness to motorboat nonstop attacks connected US subject unit successful the Middle East,” added Jabbari.
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s elder governmental analyst, said the warfare successful Gaza is mounting a batch of precedents successful the portion and wider planetary relations.
“Some of them are precise reminiscent of the things that happened successful the past,” helium said, adding that this was the archetypal clip Iran targeted a US basal extracurricular Iraq.
“It is besides caller the mode the US attacked Iran and the mode Israel preventively attacked Iran successful its warfare of choice,” Bishara said.
He added that accelerated developments successful the widening struggle amusement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is some “manipulating the US” and “taking the full portion to an chartless arsenic an indicted criminal”.
US connected Iran’s retaliation
Al Jazeera’s correspondent, Kimberly Halkett, reporting from Washington, DC, said that the US President Donald Trump was successful the Situation Room of the White House.
Initially, his nationalist information briefing had been scheduled for the Oval Office, but it was moved owed to these developments involving attacks connected US bases – specifically successful Qatar.
“We besides cognize that successful beforehand of the onslaught connected Al Udeid Air Base, which is the office of the Central Command, the largest installation successful the region, determination was an evacuation of the large infrastructure successful presumption of the aircraft,” said Halkett.
“What we cognize is that the Pentagon close now, adjacent if it’s connected precocious alert, is not tracking immoderate different imaginable attacks successful immoderate different bases – this was localised to Qatar,” added Halkett.
Reports from the White House indicated that the Iranian onslaught connected the aerial basal appears to person been calibrated to reflector the US onslaught successful presumption of the fig of missiles used.
The embassies of the US and United Kingdom successful Qatar had earlier released statements recommending that citizens successful Qatar structure successful spot until further notice. Qatar said it unopen down its airspace temporarily arsenic portion of the measures taken to guarantee the information of residents and visitors, though it has since reopened its airspace.
The countries with the astir US troops see Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. These installations service arsenic captious hubs for aerial and naval operations, determination logistics, intelligence-gathering and unit projection.
Other Gulf countries — including Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and the UAE — initially closed their airspace. Since then, they person each reopened.
Al Udeid is the largest US subject basal successful the Middle East, established successful 1996. Covering an country of 24 hectares (60 acres), the basal accommodates astir 100 craft arsenic good arsenic drones. This base, which houses immoderate 10,000 troops, serves arsenic the guardant office for US Central Command (CENTCOM) and has been cardinal to operations successful Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
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