By way of Peter Barabas & Euronews Doha, Euronews Dubai
Revealed on 12/07/2026 – 6:42 GMT+2•Up to date
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Iran unleashed waves of main, simultaneous missile and drone assaults around the Gulf on Sunday morning, focused on Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait, and claiming additional assaults in Jordan and Oman, following a brand new spherical of US airstrikes in Iran, in line with a brand new Iranian assault on a boat within the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday night time.
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Qatar’s Defence ministry introduced in a remark that “Qatar’s Armed Forces continue intercepting a number of ballistic missile attacks targeting the State of Qatar”.
Nationwide emergency air raid indicators rang out on cellphones in Qatar at 05:36 native time as Qatar’s Inner ministry prompt citizens to refuge indoors, keep away from home windows, and caution that the rustic’s safety danger stage is prime.
The UAE Defence ministry reassured the citizens that the explosions being heard are the results of air defence interceptions of Iranian missiles.
Kuwait’s military command introduced that it was once attractive “hostile aerial targets,” urging citizens to refuge.
Bahrain additionally introduced it activated its air defences in line with Iran’s assaults.
Iran’s Progressive Guard (IRGC) introduced in a remark right through the assaults that it centered the Al-Udeid US airbase in Qatar and claimed that it destroyed a command and regulate heart in addition to an airplane upkeep facility.
Qatar on the other hand introduced that it intercepted the incoming missiles targetting the most important US airbase within the area.
Iran additionally claimed it attacked the Prince Hassan airbase in Jordan, destroying quite a few amenities, and that it additionally hit Oman’s Duqm port which is utilized by the United States military.
During the last days, Tehran has time and again warned that any longer US moves will in flip cause Iran attacking US goals at the territories of the Gulf international locations, identical because it did initially of the warfare.
The United States army’s central command CENTCOM introduced Saturday night time that it carried out a sequence of moves in southern Iran, in line with a brand new Iranian assault on a Cyprus-flagged container send within the Strait of Hormuz, atmosphere it ablaze and forcing its staff to desert it. One sailor was once reported lacking.
CENTCOM mentioned it hit some 140 goals within the moves, to “degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels freeling transiting the strait,” whilst US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on-line on that “Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay,” simply ahead of the beginning of the United States bombing.
Iran’s most sensible negotiator and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned in a submit on X that “the technology of one-sided offers is OVER. We informed you: stay your phrase or pay the associated fee. Fact is knocking,” in connection with Iran’s declare of sovereignty and regulate of the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Iran framework deal to finish the warfare.
