The Iranian regime made the announcement on state television and through state-run media outlets like PressTV and Fars News.
Iran said Monday night local time that it launched missile barrages at an American military base in Qatar, two days after a U.S. airstrike targeted the country’s nuclear facilities.
The Iranian regime made the announcement on state television and through state-run media outlets including PressTV and Fars News.
“The message of this decisive action by the sons of the nation in the armed forces to the White House and its allies is clear and direct,” the Iranian military said in a statement through state-run media, adding that Iran won’t “leave any violation of its territorial integrity, sovereignty, or national security unanswered.”
Further details about the attack were not released by the military. Fars News said that only one base in Qatar was targeted, while PressTV said multiple bases were targeted.
A statement from Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari on Monday said that the energy-rich nation “condemns the attack that targeted” the Al Udeid Air Base, where U.S. troops are stationed, according to a translation from Arabic to English.
“We reassure that Qatar’s air defenses successfully thwarted the attack and intercepted the Iranian missiles,” it said, adding that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was responsible.
The statement, which said there were no casualties during the attack on the air base, said Qatar would push for diplomatic efforts for “a serious return to the negotiating table and dialogue.”
Al Udeid is home to the U.S. Combined Air Operations Center, which provides command and control of airpower across the region, as well as the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, the largest expeditionary wing in the world.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who announced the U.S. airstrikes on Iran on Saturday night, visited the air base last month.
During the visit, he spoke to troops stationed at the base and said that his “priority is to end conflict, not start them.”
“But I will never hesitate to wield American power, if it’s necessary, to defend the United States of America or our partners. And this is one of our great partners right here,” he said, referring to Qatar.
Trump added that if the United States is threatened in some manner, the military “will answer our enemies without even thinking about it. We have overwhelming strength and devastating force.”
Right before the missiles were launched, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a statement on social media platform X that the regime cannot allow strikes on the country’s nuclear facility to go “unanswered” and will “respond,” according to a translation.
The U.S. military has yet to issue a statement on the alleged missile barrages. The Epoch Times contacted the Pentagon for comment Monday.
In early 2020, after the U.S. airstrike that killed powerful Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, the regime launched multiple volleys of missiles at U.S. bases in the region.
After Saturday’s airstrikes, officials said the Trump administration is open to negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, which the United States has long said is designed to produce nuclear weapons.
“We’ll defend our people … but let’s hope they don’t choose that route. Let’s all hope that they actually decide, ‘let’s go negotiate’ because we want a diplomatic and peaceful solution,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a Sunday interview with CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
