Iran claims it has carried out a “mighty and successful response” to “America’s aggression” after launching missile assaults on US army bases in Qatar and Iraq.
The assaults come after the US dropped “bunker buster bombs” on three key nuclear websites in Iran over the weekend.
Iran’s response this night is the most recent escalation in tensions within the risky area.
Individuals in Qatar’s capital, Doha, stopped and gazed up on the sky as missiles flew and interceptors fired – hanging a minimum of one missile within the night time sky.
Iran introduced on state tv that it had attacked American forces stationed at Qatar’s al Udeid airbase.
A caption on display screen known as it “a mighty and successful response” to “America’s aggression” as martial music performed.
Qatar has mentioned there aren’t any casualties on the al Udeid base following the Iranian assault.
Iran additionally focused the Ain al-Assad base housing US troops in western Iraq, an Iraqi safety official instructed the Related Press.
The assaults got here shortly after Qatar closed its airspace as a precaution amid threats from Iran.
Simply earlier than the explosions, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on the social platform X: “We neither initiated the war nor seeking it. But we will not leave invasion to the great Iran without answer.”