The War Room newsletter: The aftermath of America's strike
Assessing the wreckage of the regime's nuclear dream
He must decide whether to keep on fighting
He says American strikes have 'obliterated' the nuclear programme
A test of Trump's nerves, Iranian resilience and Israeli overreach
War with Israel has put the Islamic Republic's supreme leader back in his Manichean comfort zone
The president is unreliable. The Islamic Republic is inflexible
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Western Telegraph
12 minutes ago
- Western Telegraph
Iran launches missiles at US base in Qatar in retaliation for American bombing
There were no US casualties, Donald Trump said as he dismissed the attack as a 'very weak response', adding that Washington was warned by Tehran in advance. 'Most importantly, they've gotten it all out of their 'system,' and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE,' the US president posted on Truth Social. Qatar condemned the attack on Al Udeid Air Base but said it intercepted the short and medium-range ballistic missiles. Satellite image showing Al Udeid Air Base (Planet Labs PBC/AP) Iran said the volley matched the number of bombs dropped by the US on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend, adding that it targeted the base because it was outside populated areas. Those comments, made immediately after the attack, suggested Tehran wanted to de-escalate with the US, something Mr Trump said after the strikes early on Sunday on Iran. He said Iran might be able to 'now proceed to Peace and Harmony' and he would encourage Israel to do the same. However, Israel's war on Iran continued, with the Israeli military expanding its campaign on Monday to target sites symbolic for the country's theocracy. Iran announced the attack on Qatar on state television as martial music played. A caption on screen called it 'a mighty and successful response' to 'America's aggression'. Meanwhile, Iraqis said they were informed by US officials that missiles had been launched toward the the Ain al-Assad base housing US troops in western Iraq, but the missiles never arrived, according to an Iraqi security source. A US military official said there was no confirmed attack on the base in Iraq. Donald Trump (Carlos Barria/AP) Iran fired 19 missiles at the base in Qatar, and one impacted the facility but caused no casualties, a Qatari military officer said. Major General Shayeq Al Hajri told reporters that seven missiles were fired initially from Iran and all were intercepted over the water between the two countries by Qatari air defences. Iran then fired 12 more missiles and 11 were intercepted over Qatari territory, but one hit the US base, Maj Gen al Hajri said. It was not clear how much damage was caused by the missile. Mr Trump said 14 missiles were fired, 13 were brought down and one was 'set free' because it posed no threat. The Al Udeid base is home to the Combined Air Operations Centre, which provides command and control of air power across the region, as well as the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, the largest such unit in the world. Just before the explosions, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on the social platform X: 'We neither initiated the war nor seeking it. But we will not leave invasion to the great Iran without answer.' The retaliation came a day after the US launched a surprise attack on Sunday morning on three of Iran's nuclear sites.
Leader Live
13 minutes ago
- Leader Live
Iran launches missiles at US base in Qatar in retaliation for American bombing
There were no US casualties, Donald Trump said as he dismissed the attack as a 'very weak response', adding that Washington was warned by Tehran in advance. 'Most importantly, they've gotten it all out of their 'system,' and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE,' the US president posted on Truth Social. Qatar condemned the attack on Al Udeid Air Base but said it intercepted the short and medium-range ballistic missiles. Iran said the volley matched the number of bombs dropped by the US on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend, adding that it targeted the base because it was outside populated areas. Those comments, made immediately after the attack, suggested Tehran wanted to de-escalate with the US, something Mr Trump said after the strikes early on Sunday on Iran. He said Iran might be able to 'now proceed to Peace and Harmony' and he would encourage Israel to do the same. However, Israel's war on Iran continued, with the Israeli military expanding its campaign on Monday to target sites symbolic for the country's theocracy. Iran announced the attack on Qatar on state television as martial music played. A caption on screen called it 'a mighty and successful response' to 'America's aggression'. Meanwhile, Iraqis said they were informed by US officials that missiles had been launched toward the the Ain al-Assad base housing US troops in western Iraq, but the missiles never arrived, according to an Iraqi security source. A US military official said there was no confirmed attack on the base in Iraq. Iran fired 19 missiles at the base in Qatar, and one impacted the facility but caused no casualties, a Qatari military officer said. Major General Shayeq Al Hajri told reporters that seven missiles were fired initially from Iran and all were intercepted over the water between the two countries by Qatari air defences. Iran then fired 12 more missiles and 11 were intercepted over Qatari territory, but one hit the US base, Maj Gen al Hajri said. It was not clear how much damage was caused by the missile. Mr Trump said 14 missiles were fired, 13 were brought down and one was 'set free' because it posed no threat. The Al Udeid base is home to the Combined Air Operations Centre, which provides command and control of air power across the region, as well as the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, the largest such unit in the world. Just before the explosions, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on the social platform X: 'We neither initiated the war nor seeking it. But we will not leave invasion to the great Iran without answer.' The retaliation came a day after the US launched a surprise attack on Sunday morning on three of Iran's nuclear sites.
The Independent
15 minutes ago
- The Independent
Trump is still ‘stinging' from brutal TACO jibe, a member of his family claims, so he decided to attack Iran
The estranged niece of President Donald Trump has accused him of bombing Iran because he 'wasn't getting enough attention' and claims he was likely still 'stinging' as a result of his brutal new nickname from critics. 'As a country, we are at war and the man who led us into this war is a corrupt, degraded, ignorant know-nothing who acted illegally to plunge us into a potentially catastrophic situation without the consent of Congress because, despite the fact that he is the president of the United States of America and arguably the most recognized figure on the planet, he wasn't getting enough attention,' Mary Trump wrote Sunday on Substack. Mary Trump, a psychologist and writer who has long been critical of her uncle, notes it's time Americans 'stop imputing some deeper or reasonable motives to Donald Trump.' 'Despite being depraved and cruel, much like his cohort (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu, he is driven by the most primitive impulses that center almost solely around protecting his fragile ego from humiliation (about which he has a pathological terror) and himself from the reality that he is a complete fraud,' she continued. She continued: 'Donald is still no doubt stinging from the acronym recently coined to mock his inability to follow through on anything – TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out.' The nickname TACO, short for, 'Trump Always Chickens Out,' stems from the president's habit of making tariff threats, resulting in a drop in the markets, only for him to change course and see the markets rebound. In the post, Mary Trump called out her uncle for backing off Israel after it bombed Iran, prompting criticism from some of his most ardent defenders, before he ordered the U.S. attack just days later. 'His allies would have us believe that Donald, a brilliant strategist, was faking us out. Sure. An infinitely more plausible explanation is that, on the one hand, he hates being challenged or contradicted, especially from those who almost always fall in line; therefore, he felt the need to double down on his threats by carrying them out,' she wrote. 'On the other hand, Donald is a desperate black hole of need – by changing the narrative, he could make sure the spotlight turned back on him,' she continued. Mary Trump has long been a vocal critic of her uncle, sharing in a recent interview that she was 'devastated' by his rise to power in 2016 and said he 'never evolved' from the man she knew growing up as a child. 'I handled the 2016 election badly. I was devastated by it. I took it really personally because I felt like the worst person on the planet was being elevated at the expense of better people,' she told the BBC last month. 'How I responded to the election prefigured how I responded to everything else [later in his term] because I knew it was going to be unspeakably awful,' she continued. 'And I saw the specific policies and the ways in which those policies were designed to be cruel and to have a devastating impact on the most vulnerable people in the country.'
