Bright flashes lit up the night sky and blasts echoed across wealthy Doha in an attack that followed US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend.
“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,“ foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari added in a statement.
Qatar’s interior ministry said that the security situation was “stable” and there was “no cause for concern”.
Iran’s National Security Council confirmed the attack on Al Udeid, insisting it did not “pose any threat” to Qatar.
“This action does not pose any threat to our friendly and brotherly country, Qatar,“ the Iranian body said.
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar’s sprawling neighbour and the world’s biggest oil exporter, slammed the attack as “unjustifiable”.
Earlier, the US embassy in Qatar advised Americans there not to go out, with other Western embassies echoing the warning.
Britain and Canada later cited the US security alert in their own recommendations to nationals.
Iran’s armed forces threatened on Monday to inflict “serious, unpredictable consequences” on the US after it joined its ally Israel’s campaign against the Islamic republic with heavy strikes on three nuclear sites.
Nearly 40 military aircraft -- including transport planes like the Hercules C-130 and reconnaissance aircraft -- were parked on the tarmac at the base, the regional headquarters of the Pentagon’s Central Command, on June 5, but in an image taken on June 19, only three aircraft were visible.
Bahraini authorities had already told most government employees to work from home until further notice, citing “regional circumstances”.
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