"Thank You For Giving Early Notice": Trump After Iran Targets US Air Base
US President Donald Trump signalled today that Iran's attempted air strike at the US-run Al Udeid air base in Qatar would not draw a retaliation from Washington. In a post on X a few hours after the attack, he expressed hope that Iran has "gotten it all out of their 'system' and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE".
"Perhaps Iran can now proceed to Peace and Harmony in the Region, and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same," read one of a series of posts from President Trump, who monitored the events from the Situation Room of the White House with his senior officials.
The US President's post was also delivered with a jibe that the Iranian response to the US "obliteration" of its nuclear facilities was "very weak" - he said 14 missiles were fired by Tehran of which 13 were knocked down, "1 was set free because it was headed in a nonthreatening direction".
He also thanked Tehran for the advance warning of the strikes - "I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured".
Following the US attack on Iranian nuclear enrichment sites over the weekend under Operation Hammer, Iran's armed forces had threatened earlier on Monday to inflict "serious, unpredictable consequences" on the US.
Iran has said its action is response to the "aggressive and shameless attack by the United States on Iran's nuclear facilities and sites".
"Whoever has assaulted you, then assault him in the same way that he has assaulted you... The number of missiles used in this successful operation was equal to the number of bombs the United States used in its assault on Iran's nuclear facilities," read a statement from the Secretariat of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
While announcing the US attack over the weekend, President Trump had said, "NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!"
"We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter," his post had read.
The attack
Iran had launched its attack on the US base in Qatar two days after the US offensive on Iranian nuclear enrichment sites.Late this evening, explosions rang out from across Qatar's capital.
Qatar said it had advance information from Iran about the air strikes and there was no casualty since the missiles were intercepted by its air defence system. But it condemned the attack as a clear breach of its sovereignty, airspace, and international law.
"We express the State of Qatar's strong condemnation of the attack on Al Udeid Air Base by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and consider it a flagrant violation of the State of Qatar's sovereignty and airspace, as well as of international law," foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said in a statement.
The Al Udeid base is home to US Centcom headquarters and British military personnel also serve there on rotation, reports said.
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