A United States military official on Monday claimed that no Iranian attack had been detected at any other military base, other than Qatar, as per a Reuters report. The official added that no Iranian missiles had hit America's Al Udeid base in Qatar, either.
According to America's defence department, Iran had also notified officials from the US and Qatar prior to the attack, a Guardian report said. No US casualties have been reported so far either.
This development comes amid earlier reports of Tehran on Monday retaliating with a mortar attack on an American military base in Syria's Hasakah province, as well as missile strikes on military bases in Qatar and Iraq—a major escalation of the eleven-day conflict that the US inserted itself into.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard had even stated on national television that it had claimed to have attacked the Al Udeid military base in Qatar—one of America's largest military bases—prompting a temporary closure of airspaces in Doha, Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. This was accompanied by the missile attacks on Iraq, forming part of an operation it called 'Bashayer Al-Fath' (Tidings of Victory), as per Associated Press, Guardian and Mehr (Iranian news agency) reports.
However, THE WEEK could not independently verify these reports.
The Indian embassy in Qatar has already issued an advisory for its nationals as the situation escalates.
The reported attacks follow an American operation—titled 'Midnight Hammer'—just a day ago, which saw three key Iranian nuclear sites struck by more than fourteen 13.6-tonne Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) payloads, also known as "bunker-buster" bombs.
On Sunday (IST), the Pentagon offered a detailed timeline of how the strikes were carried out, mentioning Israeli support in a decoy that fooled Iranian military tracking systems so that as many as 125 aircraft—which included seven B-2 bombers—could attack Fordow and Natanz. Isfahan had been attacked with Tomahawk cruise missiles launched by US Navy submarines in the area.
As it revealed later on, Israel's support was not limited to helping the US bomb Iran: Tel Aviv launched its own offensive on Iran a couple of hours later, which struck “dozens” of military targets across Iran by means of fighter jets using 60+ munitions, asper the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani on Sunday asked for an emergency session of the UN Security Council, for what he described as America's “heinous attacks and illegal use of force". The UNSC sessions inevitably saw a war of words between the two nations, with Iravani also blaming Tel Aviv for dragging Washington into the conflict.
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“The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns and denounces in the strongest possible terms these unprovoked and premeditated acts of aggression, which have followed the large-scale military attack conducted by the Israeli regime on 13 June against Iran's peaceful nuclear sites and facilities," his letter to the UNSC stated, as per an Associated Press report.
He had also threatened the US with an adequate response from Iran's armed forces, a move that both US President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth have warned it against.
As the US remains on high alert, especially at its military bases in the Middle East, Israel continues to attack Iran. In its latest offensive, Tel Aviv has attacked Iran's Evin prison, which is notorious for its political prisoners: a move attacking Tehran's ruling system, as per a Reuters report.