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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures portion delivering remarks to U.S. troops during a sojourn to Al Udeid Air Base successful Doha, Qatar, May 15, 2025.
Brian Snyder | Reuters
Iran's equipped forces said Monday they carried retired missile strikes connected U.S. subject bases successful Qatar and Iraq successful effect to the U.S. bombings against cardinal Iranian nuclear facilities implicit the weekend.
Iran said it delivered a "powerful and destructive rocket strike" connected the Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar and different basal successful Iraq nether the sanction "Basharat al-Fath," which translates to "Glad Tidings of Victory," according to an NBC News translation of authorities television.
The U.S. basal successful Qatar houses astir 10,000 troops.
President Donald Trump was antecedently scheduled to conscionable with his nationalist information squad successful the Oval Office astatine 1 p.m. ET.
Qatar 'strongly condemns' onslaught and says aerial defenses 'intercepted the Iranian missiles'
Qatar "strongly condemns" the onslaught astatine the Al-Udeid aerial basal and considers it "a flagrant usurpation of the sovereignty of the State of Qatar, its airspace, planetary instrumentality and the United Nations Charter," Majed Al Ansari, the authoritative spokesperson for Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote connected X.
"We reassure that Qatar's aerial defenses successfully thwarted the onslaught and intercepted the Iranian missiles," helium wrote.
He said that the basal had been evacuated anterior to the attack, "given the tensions successful the region."
"We corroborate that nary injuries oregon quality casualties resulted from the attack," helium continued.
"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," helium said.
— Erin Doherty
Stocks are affirmative arsenic traders presumption Iran rocket attacks arsenic a constricted effect
Traders enactment connected the level astatine the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) successful New York City, U.S., June 23, 2025.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
Stock indexes are affirmative truthful acold this day contempt the Iranian attacks connected U.S. bases, arsenic investors presumption the rocket occurrence arsenic a comparatively constricted effect to the U.S. bombing of Iran's atomic facilities.
The alternative, and a overmuch much costly script for traders, would person been if Iran had targeted lipid tankers successful the Strait of Hormuz, for example, oregon Gulf authorities lipid accumulation sites.
Oil prices besides fell this day aft concisely jumping, moved little by the aforesaid moving assumptions astir Iran's retaliation.
— Christina Wilkie
Trump gathering with his nationalist information squad successful Situation Room
President Donald Trump successful the concern country connected June 21st, 2025.
Source: The White House
Trump is gathering with his nationalist information squad this afternoon.
A White House authoritative told NBC News the nationalist information squad was already gathering successful the Situation Room erstwhile Iranian missiles were fired astatine U.S. subject bases successful Iraq and Qatar.
Trump is joined by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and different apical officials.
— Christina Wilkie
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