Watch: Air defense footage from Qatar’s capital goes viral after Iran targets US base with missile strike

Videos claiming to show Qatar’s air defense systems intercepting missiles over Doha went viral on X (formerly Twitter) today, shortly after Iran reportedly launched a missile attack on a U.S. military base in the country.

The dramatic clips appear to capture interceptors engaging incoming projectiles in the skies above the Qatari capital, lighting up the night sky with explosions.

According to reports, Iran fired six ballistic missiles targeting American military installations in Qatar, including the Al Udeid Air Base, in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites.



Iran’s state television confirmed the attack, declaring it “a mighty and successful response to America’s aggression,” while martial music played in the background. The broadcast identified the U.S. base at Al Udeid as the primary target.

Shortly before the strikes, Qatar had closed its airspace as a precaution amid escalating threats from Tehran.

Eyewitnesses in Doha reported loud explosions and missile trails overhead, though the extent of the damage remains unclear.


Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also weighed in on X just before the attack, writing: “We neither initiated the war nor seek it. But we will not leave an invasion of Great Iran unanswered.”

Al Udeid Air Base is a strategic site that hosts the forward headquarters of the U.S. military’s Central Command. Although Qatar and Iran maintain diplomatic ties and jointly operate a massive offshore gas field, tensions have spiked in the wake of the U.S. strikes.

Earlier Monday, Iranian Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, the chief of joint staff of armed forces, warned Washington that its strikes had given Iranian forces a “free hand “ to “act against U.S. interests and its army.”

Tens of thousands of American troops are based in the Middle East, many in locations within range of short-range Iranian missiles.

With the strikes Sunday on Iranian nuclear sites, the United States inserted itself into Israel’s war, prompting fears of a wider regional conflict. Iran said the U.S. had crossed “a very big red line” with its risky gambit to strike the three sites with missiles and 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs.

Several Iranian officials, including Atomic Energy Organization of Iran spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi, have claimed Iran removed nuclear material from targeted sites ahead of time.