Iran Launches Missile Attacks on U.S. Bases in Qatar
The Telegraph: “Explosions were heard over Doha shortly after Qatar shut down its airspace.”
Iran on Monday afternoon fired several missiles at U.S. military bases in Qatar. “Iran launched multiple missiles against American military bases in the Middle East on Monday in retaliation for the U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities this weekend, according to one Israeli official and one Arab official,” the Axios reported. “At least 10 missiles were launched toward Qatar and at least one missile launched toward Iraq, according to the Israeli official.”
Skies over Qatar right now
pic.twitter.com/V3IqLgGO9f— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) June 23, 2025
Explosions were heard over the Qatari skies as air defense systems were activated against the incoming barrage. “Iranian missiles have targeted the al Udeid air base in Qatar, while air defence systems was activated in the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq,” the UK’s Daily Telegraph observed. “Explosions were heard over Doha shortly after Qatar shut down its airspace.”
🚨WATCH: A direct hit in Qatar…in an open field… https://t.co/Qk4N0Z2QDx pic.twitter.com/tEPhK5DdbG
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) June 23, 2025
Besides Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the Iranian regime admitted targeting a U.S. military base in Iraq. “Iran announced on state television that it attacked American forces stationed at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base,” The Associated Press noted. “Iran also targeted the Ain al-Assad base housing U.S. troops in western Iraq, an Iraqi security official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.”
Qatar claimed to have intercepted Iranian missiles over its airspace, amid fears that Tehran maybe planning to target U.S. military assets in other Arab counties. “Qatar says it intercepted rocket attack on U.S. base,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “Videos filmed by residents in Qatar showed flashes and explosions. A U.S. and an Israeli official said Iran had fired missiles toward Qatar and Iraq. Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates temporarily closed their airspace.”
The U.S. and Britain urged their citizens in Qatar to seek shelter amid ongoing Iranian strikes. “Qatar has temporarily closed its airspace after the US and the UK told their citizens in the country to shelter in place ‘until further notice.'” the BBC reported Monday afternoon local time. “The US embassy in Qatar suggested in a notice online that Americans do so ‘out of an abundance of caution.’ The UK government said it was issuing its warning in response to the US alert.”
Regime loyalists in Iran were seen rallying in the streets to celebrate the strikes on US. bases, social media posts suggest.
After Iran’s so-called “Victory” strikes on the U.S. base in Qatar, Iranians describe scenes in Tehran with music in the streets and motorcyclists waving flags. pic.twitter.com/MYWyvvN9Mg
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 23, 2025
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While granting that things are subject to change, I note:
1) As far as is known these missiles have only conventional warheads.
2) From what has been seen from a far larger and longer lasting bombardment of Israel by Iran using the same means, “accuracy” does not translate into Farsi.
3) The supply of Iranian rockets has been seriously depleted by a) Israeli strikes, and b) expenditure by the Iranians of their stockpile.
4) The Iranian supply lines for producing their missiles have been heavily attritted by strikes on the factories and logistics. As far as is known, they do not have an outside supplier.
5) All of which makes it likely that as currently constituted, the Iranian strikes are not likely to alter the strategic situation in Iran’s favor and against the US and Israel.
Subotai Bahadur
Welcome to the “One Down Thumb for All” award! Other sites are seeing the same “attention”.
“Put down a finger if your missiles were destroyed before causing any damage to your intended target.”
“Put down a finger if you don’t have enough missiles to make a dent in the current situation.”
“Put down a finger if…”
Clearly a “pissing in the wind” exercise in futility.
Latest I’ve read elsewhere is that Iran notified Qatar before the launch, told them the time and that it would be 12 missiles which allowed all to be intercepted. This was for domestic consumption only not a real attack.
If true (and I see no reason to disbelieve it), it fits with the general theme of Iran. They *had* to make a response to keep their nuts from going even nuttier. They had to be very careful not to hit anything important, because there’s lots and lots of flammables that would go up if the US decided to get conventionally serious.
Besides, half of their handpicked terrorist puppetmasters are operating out of Qatar penthouses, aren’t they?
That’s a technical problem the Iranians are almost certainly capable of overcoming. They’re not stupid. They make some very good drones, and decades ago (when the tech was still state of the art) they reverse engineered Phoenix missiles for their F-14s (as the US had stopped providing them with same).
CEP of Iranian missiles (from AI):
Iranian ballistic missiles have varying CEPs (Circular Error Probable) depending on the specific missile type and upgrades. Some older models, like the Shahab-1 and Shahab-2, have CEPs in the kilometer range (hundreds to thousands of meters). However, newer missiles like the Fateh-110 family, particularly with upgraded guidance systems, can achieve CEPs as low as 30 meters.
Here’s a breakdown of CEPs for some Iranian ballistic missiles:
Shahab-1 & Shahab-2:
These are older Scud-based missiles with CEPs ranging from several hundred to over a thousand meters.
Fateh-110 Family:
This family of missiles has seen significant improvements in accuracy. The original Fateh-110 had a CEP of around 600 meters, but newer versions with upgraded guidance kits can achieve CEPs of 30 meters or less.
Zolfaghar:
This missile, a derivative of the Fateh family, is estimated to have a CEP of around 1,500 meters with standard Inertial Navigation System (INS) guidance.
Qiam-1:
This missile, derived from the Shahab-2, is estimated to have a CEP of 100 meters.
Emad:
This is a more accurate Shahab-3 variant, with estimates suggesting a CEP of around 1.2 kilometers.
Your downvote is probably troll at work. He/she seems intent on down voting pro-American and pro-Israeli commentators.
I think this is a pretty succinct analysis.
Ignore the serial downvoter: JR is just going through menopause and has forgotten to take his Midol.
“hoax” attack?????
knowing that the Cutters and Iran are blood brothers
maybe this was just a way to *act* so that Qatar could keep credibility with the usa
Iran keeps making bad decisions.
Also if it hits empty ground don’t call it a “direct hit”
Hey! it directly hit the ground
If your target marker is big enough, you can always hit the bullseye!
Qualifies under the Douglas Adams criterion!
Given the Biden open boarders, the homeland risk level is off the charts.
Mostly peaceful illegal immigration. Obama and Biden own this risk. Were the bulk payments to the Mullahs blackmail payoffs?
And yet Trump never addressed the homeland risk level of 1000s of potential Islamist terrorist cells in the US before he bombed Iran.
How do you know he NEVER did so? Looking at what has happened, it appears they did a thorough job, including due diligence on responses. Keep hating away. It ends with insanity. There is still a ways to go, however, and it’s insufferable.
And yet you never addressed Biden letting in millions of unvetted illegals, leaving the rest of us to clean up his (and your) mess.
You’d be best off sitting this one out, asshole. Any “Islamist terror cells” belong to you Demotards.
Weak sauce, JR.
You don’t know that domestic threats aren’t being addressed.
You’re not privy to Kash Patel’s, John Ratcliffe’s and Pam Bondi’s briefings. You’re a total idiot, assuming that your minuscule knowledge matches what federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies know.
Your post is infantile, stupid and utterly idiotic, as per usual.
Or he refused to be blackmailed by it, weenie.
Actually, the Administration has addressed this problem left by Biden on multiple occasions. I heard Kash talk about it on Rogan a few days ago.
Can’t wait for the left to start wailing about how these indiscriminate missile attacks risk escalating the conflict across the Middle East. Any second now they will start winding up about it 😂
Right. They may even have to raise the daily threat level indicator from Coral Fever to Ruby Shock.
The mullahs are seriously stupid. It’s bad enough they fired at a US base but they fired at a US based in an arab country which has hosted their hamas extension, They are now going to get seriously smooshed.
Yeah, this is going to prove a serious problem for the Iranians – US forces are based in other sovereign countries. An attack on a US base is also an attack on another nation. They’d be better off restricting themselves to US forces (naval and air) patrolling the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. But they’re unlikely to do this, as Iran’s leadership has serious anger management and self-restraint problems, the very same problems that make their desire for nuclear capability an issue that needed (and will continue to need) addressing.
Oh, come now. When you blow up most of their military stockpiles, they can show great restraint!
Haha! Enforced restraint!
For crowd that claims we did real little damage, they sure seem pissed off. If the claim was true, a waving of their private parts in our general direction would have been a more contemptuous reply.
It’s even worse because a lot of nations including china have naval bases in that area. I imagine the chinese would be pretty pissed of a iranian missile strayed of course and impacted their base.
Reports are they forewarned Qatar and the US of the impending attack. face-saving maneuver as they did before.
“An attack on a US base is also an attack on another nation”
And they thought they were clever using hospitals.
We use entire sovereign nations!
I suppose this gives Trump justification for a decapitation strike on the regime. If he knows where they are, as he has said that he does, there’s a submarine somewhere in the Arabian Gulf getting orders.
Every time they launch, a launcher is exposed to loitering Iasrael jets.
Too late. Israel already has identified the launch sites and sent in planes. The Iranians knew what they were doing.
Elsewhere it has been reported that both Qatar and the US were notified in advance by Iran. So this appears to have been the pro forma, tit-fot-tat response that Iran had to make – which is why the stock market is doing fine today.
The Qatar thing especially has a staged vibe to it. Carefully calibrated to look like they’re fearlessly standing up to the Bad Orange Man without actually doing anything to make him mad.
Mission failed successfully.
Not good
It seems that the genocidal, Islamofascist, Muslim terrorist Iranian regime never heard the axiom, “When you’re in a hole, quit digging.”
Time for the gloves to come off. Total economic devastation to force regime change via a citizen uprising.
Oil infrastructure, pipelines, refineries, ports, everything.
One large can of whoopass, coming up!
Iran has won, don’t laugh, I’m a realist. The West has lost too . Trump and Israel are now gonna kiss Iranian ass all day. We in the West lost our pride and resolve around 1945. We’re done, we just haven’t absorbed it yet
“Welcome, first-time poster.”
Realist or not, your comment is laughable.
Tell us what they’ve won Johnny!!!