Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

'We have been seeing and hearing explosions' - Doha resident
BBC​

Gabriela Pomeroy
Live reporter

I've just spoken to a British citizen living in Doha with his family, who has described witnessing Qatar's air defences operating as Iran launched missiles towards a US military base. He has asked that the BBC not publish his name.

He lives about half an hour away from the US air base.

"We have been seeing and hearing explosions. I could see the defensive system being triggered and there were certain things being intercepted. You can see the collisions," he says.

“My family are a bit concerned,” he tells me. "We knew there were some risks, but we didn't expect this to happen."

He's been living in Qatar for two years for work. His family were all due to go to the UK for the summer holidays, but their travel plans are on hold now as the airport is shut.

A map of Qatar and surrounding countries, including Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The map highlights the location of Doha on the east coast and Al Udeid Air Base, locally more centrally in Qatar. An inset map shows the broader region with Iran labelled.
 
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Trump in the Situation Room as all eyes on what the US does next​


Sarah Smith
BBC North America editor

Donald Trump is in the Situation Room with his top security officials for an already scheduled National Security Council meeting at this hour. The White House said that from there they are closely monitoring the progress of Iran's attack on al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

The attack itself is not a complete surprise. The US has been braced for something like this happening since its attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend. All of the US forces in the Middle East have been on high alert and ready for an attack like this to come.

And of course the US won't know for some time exactly what the scale of Iran's attack has been. But once they do get that information, Trump and his leading officials will need to decide how they are going to respond.

This is now a crucial moment, when we will see whether this conflict spirals into something larger, wider and more complex than the US had wanted, or whether it can be contained.

The US had hoped that they could get in with one surgical, tactical strike against Iran's nuclear facilities and leave it at that. But an Iranian response was inevitable. We're all waiting now to see now what it will provoke.
 
A1Kaid said:
I think this is a bad calculation by the Iranians at this time. This is exactly what Netanyahu wanted to happen.

The focus should be converting Israel to a weakened and crippled state by continued attacks.

If the US was attacking Iran continuously that would be different.
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Agreed.

All Iran had to do was openly declare that Trump was trying to distract their righteous attack on Israel and they would not fall for the distraction.

Or they could have stayed silent and just ghosted the USA, while barraging Israel. Honestly that would work well imho. Trump would also be quite hurt personally by that, like...why isn't Tehran calling? Did I say something wrong? Is there another orange they are speaking to behind my back?
 

Explosions heard in Tehran​


Ghoncheh Habibiazad
BBC Persian, World Service reporter

I'm hearing from residents of east and north-east Tehran that they've heard explosions.

Iranian outlets, such as the semi-official Mehr, have also reported that the air defence has been activated in the capital.
 
SteppeWolff said:
By informing Qataris 2 hours ago we are about to attack you? Yeah no shit thats how you deter someone. As far as ik, all missiles were intercepted.

It was a face saving maneuver to get out of this situation bro, we both know it. I for one wanted Iran to singularly focus on Israel, they should keep pounding the Zionist colony and not indulge in theatrics. Zionists want the complete dismantling of the Iranian nation.
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Iran can singularly focus on Israel,, no issues. Their long range missiles are dedicated to Israel.

Warning given or not given, as long as this serves as a warning, its fine. Its the countries protecting the entity who are a problem They are only concerned with Tourism and they will back out easily. Only then Iran can properly focus on Israel.
 
Master Chief said:
Agreed.

All Iran had to do was openly declare that Trump was trying to distract their righteous attack on Israel and they would not fall for the distraction.

Or they could have stayed silent and just ghosted the USA, while barraging Israel. Honestly that would work well imho. Trump would also be quite hurt personally by that, like...why isn't Tehran calling? Did I say something wrong? Is there another orange they are speaking to behind my back?
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Theatre for local populace. However people are intelligent and they don't fall for this shit.
 
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