Iran has launched six missiles towards US bases in the capital of Qatar, Doha, according to reports.
Donald Trump launched an attack on Iran’s key nuclear facilities on Saturday night (June 21), with the president declaring the mission a ‘success’ after it ‘completely obliterated’ the Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan nuclear sites.
Worries about the international fallout of the bombings have been growing however, with fears over how Iran will retaliate after it threatened it would be coming up with a ‘decisive response’ to the US attack.
And that response came on Monday (June 23), with Iran targeting Ain al-Asad airbase, the largest US base in the Middle East that houses some 10,000 troops.
Earlier today, it was announced Qatari airspace had been closed amid the threat of an attack by Iran.
A few hours ago, the US embassy in Qatar told US citizens they should shelter in place ‘until further notice’.
Iranian Tasnim news agency say that operation ‘Annunciation of Victory’ launched against US bases in both Qatar and Israel.
Meanwhile, Iran’s armed forces have confirmed the Al-Udeid base in Qatar with has been hit with a ‘devastating and powerful’ missile attack.
The announcement of missiles being launched was made on state television as martial music played.
A caption on the screen called it “a mighty and successful response by the armed forces of Iran to America’s aggression”.
Just before 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.”
On the 11th day of the conflict, Israel said it attacked ‘regime targets and government repression bodies in the heart of Tehran’.
The Israeli military warned Iranians that it would continue to attack military sites around Tehran over ‘the coming days’ as its focuses has shifted to symbolic targets as well.
The latest strikes unfolded only hours after President Donald Trump openly raised the possibility himself after just a day earlier inserting America into the war with its unprecedented stealth-bomber strike on three Iranian nuclear sites.
“If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???” the president wrote on Truth Social.
Trump is believed to the in the West Wing of the White House, with the BBC reporting Marine standing outside the door is indicating just that.
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