Iran has launched six missiles at the United States’ biggest base in the Middle East in response to President Trump bombing nuclear sites over the weekend.
The retaliation comes after Aerial defenses swiftly activated after a credible threat alert was issued on Monday June 23, 2025 to the Al-Audie’s based in Qatar.
The base currently hosts over 10,000 US troops as well as over 100 aircraft, strategic bombers and tankers.
US Bases in Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain also sounded their air raid sirens shortly after the Al Udeid base was targeted by Iranian missiles.
President Trump has convened his national security team in the White House as air US targets across the world are put on high alert.
It comes as Iran warned the United States will directly pay for strikes on its nuclear facilities ‘rather than standing behind Israel’, with the Islamic Republic prepared for a war lasting up to two years, a senior Iranian official told reporters.
Tehran’s mission to the UN said the US and Israel as well as the United Kingdom, France and the International Atomic Energy Agency director personally ‘will all ‘bear full responsibility for the death of innocent civilians in Iran.
Trump used 30,000 pound bunker buster bombs to hit its nuclear facilities on Saturday night, then sparked Iranian fury when he raised the prospect of regime change the next day.
Iranian state media warning that up to 50,000 American soldiers would be returned to Washington in ‘coffins’.
Israel also launched an attack on ‘regime targets’ in Tehran on Monday, with ‘hundreds’ of members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said to have been killed in a huge wave of strikes.
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SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk
