Americans in Qatar told to shelter in place as Iranian military threatens action against US interests

The U.S. Embassy successful Qatar told Americans to structure successful spot until further announcement Monday greeting pursuing the weekend’s attacks on Iran.

The embassy said it made the proposal "out of an abundance of caution" but provided nary different details. Qatar is location to Al Udeid Air Base, wherever astir 10,000 U.S. soldiers are deployed. 

The advisory came aft the State Department issued a informing to American citizens connected Sunday.

"There is the imaginable for demonstrations against U.S. citizens and interests abroad. The Department of State advises U.S. citizens worldwide to workout accrued caution."

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President Donald Trump visited Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar earlier this year. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo)

Iran vowed to retaliate against the U.S. aft American B-2 bombers dropped 14 bunker buster bombs connected 3 Iranian atomic sites. 

"The transgression US indispensable cognize that successful summation to punishing its illegitimate and assertive offspring, the hands of Islam’s fighters wrong the equipped forces person been freed to instrumentality immoderate enactment against its interests and military, and we volition ne'er backmost down successful this regard," Abdolrahim Mousavi, the caller main of unit of the Iranian equipped forces, warned successful a statement. 

Qatar’s overseas affairs spokesperson said the "advisory from a fig of embassies to their citizens bash not bespeak the beingness of circumstantial threats."

"The information concern successful the state is stable," the connection said, adding, "the applicable authorities are intimately monitoring the concern and are acceptable to instrumentality each indispensable measures to guarantee the information of citizens, residents, and visitors." 

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U.S. B-2 bombers carried bunker buster bombs into Iran to onslaught atomic sites. (REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo)

Qatar has struck a delicate equilibrium betwixt affable relations with its neighbour Iran and the West. 

Some 40,000 U.S. troops are stationed crossed the Middle East.

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left, has walked a delicate enactment betwixt affable relations with some the U.S. and Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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While Iran is mostly expected to motorboat a counterattack to the weekend’s bombings, Israeli strikes person taken retired Iran’s rocket launchers and depleted its banal of medium-range missiles.

The U.S. homeland, meanwhile, is nether a "heightened menace environment" pursuing the weekend's strikes, including "low-level cyber attacks against US networks by pro-Iranian hacktivists are likely, and cyber actors affiliated with the Iranian authorities whitethorn behaviour attacks against US networks."