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Iran has reportedly fired six missiles at US bases in Qatar and Iraq, retaliating the bombing of its nuclear sites by the US military.
Explosions have been heard over Doha after Iran launched a missile attack on a US base in Qatar.
Qatar has confirmed the attack on the US-run Al Udeid base, calling it a “flagrant violation.”
According to Qatar’s Defence Ministry, the missiles targeting Al Udeid Air Base were systems successfully intercepted by its air defence system.
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The ministry, in a statement said, the incident resulted in no deaths or injuries.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has also officially confirmed the development.
According to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, the retaliatory operation is called “Annunciation of Victory.”
Meanwhile, Qatar on Monday said it “reserved the right to respond” after Iran attacked the US Al Udeid base hosted in the Gulf state, the largest American military facility in the region.
“We affirm that the State of Qatar reserves the right to respond directly in a manner proportional to the nature and scale of this blatant aggression,” foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said in a statement, adding that the US base had been evacuated as a precaution ahead of the attack.
President Donald Trump said the US has bombed Fordow, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility, as well as two other sites, Natanz and Esfahan.
Trump, who spoke from the White House on Saturday night, said the objective of the strikes was to destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity and stop its nuclear threat.
“A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime Fordow Natanz and Esfahan,” Trump said.
“Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
