Qatar has intercepted missiles Iran shot toward the country, according to a Qatari official, as Iran apparently retaliated for U.S. strikes on the country’s nuclear facilities this past weekend.
“We reassure that Qatar’s air defenses successfully thwarted the attack and intercepted the Iranian missiles,” Majed Al Ansari, adviser to the Qatari prime minister and spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a statement posted to X.
Ansari wrote that Qatar “strongly condemns” the attack and the nation “reserves the right to respond directly in a manner equivalent with the nature and scale of this brazen aggression, in line with international law.”