Iran has launched a “powerful” attack on a US air base in Qatar

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Iran has launched a “powerful” attack on a US air base in Qatar, the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said. Al Udeid Air Base was attacked “by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originating from Iran,” a US defense official said.

• Attack intercepted: Qatar’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses “successfully” intercepted the missile attack targeting the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. No deaths or injuries have been reported.

American officials have been preparing for the likelihood that Iran may target US facilities ever since the US struck Iran’s nuclear sites over the weekend. The US military had moved some planes from the Al Udeid base amid the conflict between Israel and Iran, two defense officials told CNN last week.

Iranian nuclear sites “can’t be destroyed with one attack and a few explosions,” said Brig. Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to the state-aligned Tasnim news agency Monday.

US President Donald Trump promised he would finish the job in Iran and “get involved. So, what happened? You targeted commanders, but operational commanders emerged,” Jabbari told Tasnim.

“You (Trump) said you have a drone and micro-drone division, but you didn’t succeed. You said a split would form among the Iranian people, but it didn’t. Instead, unity was created in Iran!” he added.

The IRGC is an elite wing of the Iranian military and was established in the aftermath of the country’s revolution in 1979.

In 2019, the United States put the Revolutionary Guards on its list of terrorist groups.