Our Knowledge of Iran’s Attack on U.S. Base in Qatar

Iran launched missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday, which it said was retaliating against strikes on U.S. nuclear sites over the weekend.

Witnesses reported loud bangs were heard in the sky above the capital Doha, while the video showed a bright flash as the air defense system tried to intercept the missile.

Donald Trump described the attack as “very weak” and “expected” and suggested peace in the region could be carried out.

On Tuesday, the U.S. president announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran took effect.

This is what we know.

Iranian missiles target Al-Udeid, the largest military base in the Middle East, in response to three nuclear-planned facilities in the U.S. bombing on Saturday night.

Al-udeid is the location of all air operations at the U.S. military headquarters. Some British military personnel were spinning there too.

The attack was first confirmed by Iranian state media and later confirmed by the military.

“Iran will not have no answers to its sovereign attacks,” a statement from the IRGC, the most powerful branch of the Iranian military, said, adding: “Our base in the region is not advantage, but vulnerability.”

The United States has previously warned Iran not to respond to its strike on its nuclear facilities and urged Tehran leaders to agree to the diplomatic outcome of hostilities in the region.

Reports on how many missiles are launched vary. Iran said six people said the U.S. was 14 years old, and Reuters reported Qatar said 19-added that all of these were intercepted.

No one was reportedly killed or injured.

In the hours before the attack, both the United States and the United Kingdom recommended that their citizens in Qatar “being asylum”. According to the State Department and thousands of British citizens, about 8,000 American citizens live in Qatar.

Soon, it was soon known that Iran warned that it was ready to launch missiles. Three Iranian officials quoted by The New York Times said Tehran told Doha of its intentions to minimize casualties.

President Donald Trump thanked Iran in his first comment in Afterthought for “giving us early notice, which makes no lives to be killed and no one is injured”.

He said he called the attack “very weak” – no Americans were hurt, and hardly any harm was done. “They have gone all out of the system,” he added. There is now a chance for “peace”.

Nevertheless, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said the attack was a “surprise” and a “blatant violation of its sovereignty”, adding that Qatar was one of the first countries to warn Israel in the region that had escalated dangers.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said that Iran did not hurt anyone in the attack, but that his country would not “obey anyone’s violations.”

He said on X: “We have not violated anyone, and we will never accept anyone’s violation. We will not obey anyone’s violations; this is the logic of the Iranian state.”

Israel publicly agreed to Trump’s ceasefire proposal on Tuesday, and Iran said it would stop the attack only if Israel does the same.

Iranian state media announced that the country fired the “last round of missiles” to Israel before the ceasefire began.

Meanwhile, the Israeli government warned Iran: “Israel will respond strongly to any violation of the ceasefire.”

There were signs on Monday that the United States was suspected of Iran preparing to launch the missile to Qatar.

Hours before the attack, Qatar said it would temporarily close the airspace shortly after the United States and the United Kingdom told the city’s citizens that “asylum was in place.”

The warnings do not clearly show that the attack is imminent: the United States said it issued an order “out of a lot of caution”, while the United Kingdom said it was following American leadership.

But about an hour before the attack, the BBC learned of a “credible threat” to the base.

In addition, some American media quoted anonymous officials as saying that Iranian missile launchers have been positioned as potential Qatar.

The flight tracking website shows that the aircraft has begun to move to other airports before launch. According to Flightradar24 data, 100 flights were made to Doha shortly before the missile was discovered.

Hamad International Airport is one of the top ten busiest internationally traffic-free airports in the world, with about 140,000 passengers passing by every day.

Other countries in the region, including Bahrain and Kuwait, have also closed the airspace in a short period of time.

The U.S. launched a massive strike on Saturday against three nuclear facilities within Iran.

This comes after uncertainty over whether the United States will join the uncertainty of whether it will begin Israel’s military operations against Iran on June 13.

Israel has been launching missile attacks on nuclear and military facilities within Iran, and its government said it is necessary to prevent Iran from building up its nuclear weapons.

Later Israel and the U.S. governments tried to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Iran has maintained its extensive nuclear program for civilian purposes.

The United States claims its strike has severely undermined Iran’s nuclear program, although the full extent of its impact is unclear.

The attacks between Iran and Israel also continued on Sunday and Monday before the ceasefire took effect.