Iranian president says neither Qatar nor its individuals had been targets of assault on US base within the gas-rich Gulf nation.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has expressed his “remorse” to Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani over Tehran’s missile assault on a US base on Monday.
In a telephone name on Tuesday with the emir, Pezeshkian famous that neither Qatar nor its inhabitants had been the goal of the assault on the Al Udeid Air Base, america base in Qatar, and that it did “not symbolize a menace” to the Gulf nation, the Diwan (emir’s workplace) mentioned in a press release.
“[Pezeshkian] pressured that the State of Qatar will stay a neighbouring, Muslim, and sisterly state, and expressed his hope that relations between the 2 nations will at all times be based mostly on the ideas of respect for the sovereignty of states and good neighbourliness,” the assertion mentioned.
Iran launched 19 missiles on the US base, which is the biggest within the Center East, with Qatari defence forces intercepting 18 of them, in keeping with officers from the Ministry of Inside. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mentioned it had launched this “highly effective and devastating missile assault” in response to the “blatant navy aggression” by the US on Iran’s nuclear services on Sunday.
سمو الأمير المفدى يتلقى اتصالاً هاتفياً من فخامة الرئيس الدكتور مسعود بزشكيان رئيس الجمهورية الإسلامية الإيرانية. https://t.co/xrn7hpCfPR
— الديوان الأميري (@AmiriDiwan) June 24, 2025
Translation: His Highness the Emir receives a telephone name from His Excellency Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In the course of the Iranian assault, a collection of flares and loud explosions had been noticed in Qatar’s capital, Doha, in addition to different areas of the nation. Qatari officers confirmed that the airbase was evacuated earlier than the assault.
In line with the Diwan, the emir “reiterated Qatar’s sturdy condemnation” of the assault, contemplating it a “flagrant violation of its sovereignty and airspace”.
“His Highness the Emir additionally expressed that this violation is totally inconsistent with the precept of fine neighbourliness and the shut relations between the 2 nations, particularly since Qatar has at all times been an advocate of dialogue with Iran and has made strenuous diplomatic efforts on this regard,” the assertion added.
Iran and Qatar have lengthy loved fraternal relations, and the Qatari authorities has condemned each the Israeli and US assaults on Iran. However Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani spoke at a information convention on Tuesday of a “scar” to relations between Doha and Tehran that would wish time to heal.
Earlier on Tuesday, Qatar’s Overseas Ministry mentioned it despatched a letter to United Nations Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres and the UN Safety Council, denouncing the IRGC’s “extraordinarily harmful escalation” and saying the assault posed a “direct menace to regional peace and safety”.
The tit-for-tat assaults between the US and Iran come amidst the battle between Israel and Iran, which started on June 13, after the Israeli military struck a number of targets inside Iran.
Hours after the assault on the Al Udeid Air Base, US President Donald Trump introduced late on Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire. Nonetheless, each nations have accused one another of violating the truce.
