Iran’s Pezeshkian expresses ‘regret’ to the emir of Qatar

Iranian president says neither Qatar nor its radical were targets of onslaught connected US basal successful the gas-rich Gulf nation.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has expressed his “regret” to Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani implicit Tehran’s rocket onslaught connected a US base connected Monday.

In a telephone telephone connected Tuesday with the emir, Pezeshkian noted that neither Qatar nor its colonisation were the people of the onslaught connected the Al Udeid Air Base, the United States basal successful Qatar, and that it did “not correspond a threat” to the Gulf nation, the Diwan (emir’s office) said successful a statement.

“[Pezeshkian] stressed that the State of Qatar volition stay a neighbouring, Muslim, and sisterly state, and expressed his anticipation that relations betwixt the 2 countries volition ever beryllium based connected the principles of respect for the sovereignty of states and bully neighbourliness,” the connection said.

Iran launched 19 missiles astatine the US base, which is the largest successful the Middle East, with Qatari defence forces intercepting 18 of them, according to officials from the Ministry of Interior. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had launched this “powerful and devastating rocket attack” successful effect to the “blatant subject aggression” by the US connected Iran’s atomic facilities connected Sunday.

سمو الأمير المفدى يتلقى اتصالاً هاتفياً من فخامة الرئيس الدكتور مسعود بزشكيان رئيس الجمهورية الإسلامية الإيرانية. https://t.co/xrn7hpCfPR

— الديوان الأميري (@AmiriDiwan) June 24, 2025

Translation: His Highness the Emir receives a telephone telephone from His Excellency Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

During the Iranian attack, a bid of flares and large explosions were observed successful Qatar’s capital, Doha, arsenic good arsenic different areas of the country. Qatari officials confirmed that the airbase was evacuated earlier the attack.

According to the Diwan, the emir “reiterated Qatar’s beardown condemnation” of the attack, considering it a “flagrant usurpation of its sovereignty and airspace”.

“His Highness the Emir besides expressed that this usurpation is wholly inconsistent with the rule of bully neighbourliness and the adjacent relations betwixt the 2 countries, particularly since Qatar has ever been an advocator of dialog with Iran and has made strenuous diplomatic efforts successful this regard,” the connection added.

Iran and Qatar person agelong enjoyed fraternal relations, and the Qatari authorities has condemned some the Israeli and US attacks connected Iran. But Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani spoke astatine a quality league connected Tuesday of a “scar” to relations betwixt Doha and Tehran that would request clip to heal.

Earlier connected Tuesday, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said it sent a missive to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council, denouncing the IRGC’s “extremely unsafe escalation” and saying the onslaught posed a “direct menace to determination bid and security”.

The tit-for-tat attacks betwixt the US and Iran travel amidst the struggle betwixt Israel and Iran, which began connected June 13, aft the Israeli service struck aggregate targets wrong Iran.

Hours aft the onslaught connected the Al Udeid Air Base, US President Donald Trump announced precocious connected Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire. Nevertheless, some countries person accused each different of violating the truce.