BREAKING: Iran Attacks Qatar, US Bases On High Alert for Incoming

God help them they hurt one hair on an American head. That’s all I can say.

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Air defenses seen activated over Doha, Qatar, after Iran fired a barrage of missiles at it, likely targeting the al-Udeid base used by U.S. forces pic.twitter.com/exG9nVGR1d

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 23, 2025

Word is they’ve fired at our other assets in the region as well. I’m waiting on confirmation for that.

🚨 BREAKING: Iran just launched rockets at American assets in Qatar and Iraq. pic.twitter.com/vlDizsLzJt

— Noa Tishby (@noatishby) June 23, 2025

Griffin is at the Pentagon and they’ve been talking about GPS jamming, which I had heard this morning.

BREAKING: Iran is bombing Qatar. 6 ballistic missiles are confirmed incoming.

NO INDICATION OF IMPACT AT THIS POINT. pic.twitter.com/N80NDzImVm

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 23, 2025

I’d seen earlier that they’d closed the airspace over Qatar.

Now there’s a more than even chance that this is one of their famous feints, where there’s lots of fire and noise for the cameras and public consumption, but as little damage as possible to really torque off a response.

This will be an ongoing thread.

The Iranian state media is officially calling this “Basharat al-Fath,” so apparently they are going to consider it a ‘thing.’ Folks in the Qatari capitol city of Doha are not enjoying the fireworks. 

Panic seen in Doha during the Iranian ballistic missile attack earlier against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. pic.twitter.com/fRxeiafTta

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 23, 2025

The Qataris have issued a statement and they are very unhappy.

…Qatar’s Foreign Minstry spokesman, in a statement on X, said, “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 and the United Nations Charter.”

“We affirm that the State of Qatar reserves the right to respond directly in a manner proportional to the nature and scale of this blatant aggression and in accordance with international law,” the spokesman said.

I’m reading that the Saudis have scrambled fighters in case of Iranian assets, but I’m not sure 1) what they have left 2) what they’d be willing to put up to sacrifice.

And here might be some proof that this could well be all for the cameras back home…well. When they leave them on, I mean.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council claims in a statement, that the IRGC and Army “pulverized” the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in response this weekend’s strikes against nuclear sites in Iran. It further says the number of missiles matched the number of U.S. bombs used,…

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 23, 2025

Ah, Ed just pinged me on this. Kabuki theater for the masses and to save face? Wouldn’t be the first time.

The New York Times reports:

“Iran coordinated the attacks on the American air base in Qatar with Qatari officials and gave advanced notice that attacks were coming to minimize casualties, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the plans. The officials said Iran…

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 23, 2025

…The officials said Iran symbolically needed to strike back at the U.S. but at the same time carry it out in a way that allowed all sides an exit ramp; they described it as a similar strategy to 2020 when Iran gave Iraq heads up before firing ballistic missiles an American base in Iraq following the assassination of its top general.”