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Iran’s onslaught targeting the Al Udeid Air Base draws crisp rebukes from respective states successful the Gulf region.
Published On 23 Jun 2025
Iran has launched an attack connected a United States subject basal successful Qatar successful retaliation for US strikes connected respective cardinal Iranian atomic facilities implicit the weekend.
No injuries person yet been reported aft Iran connected Monday fired a missile barrage targeting the Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar, which had been evacuated and was protected by Qatari aerial defences.
While immoderate analysts judge the comparatively constricted Iranian effect signals a tendency to de-escalate tensions with the US, galore countries person powerfully condemned the attack.
Here are immoderate of the statements released by assorted countries successful response.
United States
Posting connected the Truth Social societal media platform, US President Donald Trump wrote: “Iran has officially responded to our Obliteration of their Nuclear Facilities with a precise anemic response, which we expected, and person precise efficaciously countered. There person been 14 missiles fired — 13 were knocked down, and 1 was ‘set free,’ due to the fact that it was headed successful a nonthreatening direction. I americium pleased to study that NO Americans were harmed, and hardly immoderate harm was done. Most importantly, they’ve gotten it each retired of their ‘system’ and determination will, hopefully, beryllium nary further HATE. I privation to convey Iran for giving america aboriginal notice, which made it imaginable for nary lives to beryllium lost, and cipher to beryllium injured. Perhaps Iran tin present proceed to Peace and Harmony successful the Region, and I volition enthusiastically promote Israel to bash the same. Thank you for your attraction to this matter!”
Qatar
“Advisor to the Prime Minister and Official Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Majed bin Mohammed Al Ansari expressed the State of Qatar’s beardown condemnation of the onslaught that targeted Al-Udeid Air Base by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and considered this a flagrant usurpation of the sovereignty of the State of Qatar, its airspace, planetary law, and the United Nations Charter.
“He affirmed that Qatar reserves the close to respond straight successful a mode equivalent with the nature and standard of this brazen aggression, successful enactment with planetary law.”
Saudi Arabia
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its condemnation and denunciation, successful the strongest presumption possible, [of] the aggression launched by Iran against the brotherly State of Qatar, which constitutes a flagrant usurpation of planetary instrumentality and the principles of bully neighborliness, and an wholly unacceptable enactment that cannot beryllium justified nether immoderate circumstances.”
United Arab Emirates
“The United Arab Emirates condemned successful the strongest presumption the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s targeting of Al Udeid Air Base successful the sisterly State of Qatar, considering it a flagrant usurpation of Qatar’s sovereignty and airspace, and a wide contravention of planetary instrumentality and the UN Charter. The UAE affirmed its categorical rejection of immoderate onslaught that threatens the information and information of Qatar and undermines the information and stableness of the region.”
Bahrain
“The Kingdom of Bahrain affirms its afloat enactment for the sisterly State of Qatar pursuing the Iranian onslaught connected its territory.
“The Kingdom of Bahrain besides expresses its afloat solidarity with the sisterly State of Qatar, arsenic required by the enslaved of brotherhood and blood, which confirms the solidarity of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries successful these delicate circumstances the portion is going done to exert the indispensable efforts to workout self-restraint, debar escalation, and resoluteness each disputes done peaceful means.”
Kuwait
“The State of Kuwait expresses its beardown condemnation and denunciation of the attacks targeting Al Udeid Air Base successful the sisterly State of Qatar by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. This onslaught constitutes a flagrant usurpation of Qatari sovereignty and airspace, arsenic good arsenic of planetary instrumentality and the United Nations Charter. It constitutes a unsafe escalation that threatens peace, security, and stableness successful the region.
“The State of Kuwait affirms its afloat enactment for the brothers successful the sisterly State of Qatar, its leadership, authorities and people, and its afloat enactment for each measures taken to sphere its sovereignty, information and stability, including its close to respond straight successful a mode commensurate with the magnitude of this blatant aggression.”
France
President Emmanuel Macron issued a connection saying: “France’s solidarity [is] with Qatar, which has been struck by Iran connected its soil. I americium successful adjacent interaction with the country’s authorities and our partners successful the region. I telephone connected each parties to workout the utmost restraint, de-escalate, and instrumentality to the negotiating table. This spiral of chaos indispensable end.”
Iran
Posting connected the societal media level X, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote: “We didn’t harm anyone. And we volition not judge immoderate harassment from anyone nether immoderate circumstances. And we volition not taxable to anyone’s harassment; This is the logic of the Iranian nation.”