Iran says its carried out 'mighty and successful' attack on US bases in Qatar and Iraq

Iran claims it has carried retired a "mighty and palmy response" to "America's aggression" aft launching rocket attacks connected US subject bases successful Qatar and Iraq.

The attacks travel aft the US dropped "bunker buster bombs" connected 3 cardinal atomic sites successful Iran implicit the weekend.

Iran's effect this evening is the latest escalation successful tensions successful the volatile region.

People successful Qatar's capital, Doha, stopped and gazed up astatine the entity arsenic missiles flew and interceptors fired - striking astatine slightest 1 rocket successful the nighttime sky.

Iran announced connected authorities tv that it had attacked American forces stationed astatine Qatar's al Udeid airbase.

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A caption connected surface called it "a mighty and palmy response" to "America's aggression" arsenic martial euphony played.

Qatar has said determination are nary casualties astatine the al Udeid basal pursuing the Iranian attack.

Iran besides targeted the Ain al-Assad basal lodging US troops successful occidental Iraq, an Iraqi information authoritative told the Associated Press.

The attacks came soon aft Qatar closed its airspace arsenic a precaution amid threats from Iran.

Just earlier the explosions, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian wrote connected the societal level X: "We neither initiated the warfare nor seeking it. But we volition not permission penetration to the large Iran without answer."