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Explosions were heard successful Qatar connected Monday arsenic witnesses said they saw what appeared to beryllium missiles implicit the country, The Associated Press reports.
Iranian authorities media announced an cognition launching rocket attacks against U.S. bases successful Iraq and Qatar, named "Annunciation of Victory." The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted the U.S. basal astatine Al-Udeid successful Qatar with a "devastating and almighty missile."
The Qatari authorities confirmed the onslaught and said its aerial defenses "thwarted the onslaught and successfully intercepted the Iranian missiles."
"The State of Qatar powerfully condemns the onslaught that targeted Al-Udeid Air Base by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. We see this a flagrant usurpation of the sovereignty of the State of Qatar, its airspace, planetary law, and the United Nations Charter," a spokesperson for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs said successful a statement shared to societal media. "We affirm that Qatar reserves the close to respond straight successful a mode equivalent with the quality and standard of this brazen aggression, successful enactment with planetary law."
A elder White House authoritative said the White House and the Department of Defense are alert of, and intimately monitoring, imaginable threats to Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar, which serves arsenic the guardant office for CENTCOM. About 10,000 U.S. troops are based determination and are sheltering successful place.
The U.S. has astir 45,000 subject personnel, galore bases and aerial and naval fleets that it tin deploy crossed the Middle East.
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Earlier Monday, the U.S. Embassy successful Qatar warned Americans to structure successful spot "until further notice," and Qatar's overseas ministry said the state was closing its airspace "to guarantee the information of citizens, residents, and visitors."
The U.S. bombed 3 Iranian atomic sites implicit the weekend. It came aft much than a week of Israeli attacks connected Iranian targets and Iranian strikes connected Israel.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Sunday that the U.S. had "practically placed itself astatine the forefront of aggression by straight attacking peaceful facilities." It alluded to plans to onslaught U.S. assets successful the Middle East, saying "the number, dispersion, and size of U.S. subject bases successful the portion are not a strength, but person doubled their vulnerability."
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Eleanor Watson, Justine Redman, Melissa Quinn and Sara Cook contributed to this report.
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