Satelelitte photo of the Al Udeid air base in Qatar
Jon Gambrell – AP News July 11, 2025
An Iranian attack on an air base in Qatar that’s key to the U.S. military likely hit a geodesic dome housing equipment used by the Americans for secure communications, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show.
The U.S. military and Qatar didn’t respond to requests for comment over the damage, which so far hasn’t been publicly acknowledged.
The Iranian attack on Al Udeid Air Base outside of Doha, Qatar’s capital, on June 23 came as a response to the American bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran — and provided the Islamic Republic a way to retaliate that quickly led to a ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump ending the 12-day Iran-Israel war.
The Iranian attack otherwise did little damage — likely because of the fact that the U.S. evacuated its aircraft from the base, which is home to the forward headquarters of the U.S. military’s Central Command, before the attack.
Trump also has said that Iran signaled when and how it would retaliate, allowing American and Qatari air defense to be ready for the attack, which briefly disrupted air travel in the Middle East, but otherwise didn’t tip over into the regional war long feared by analysts.
Images show burn marks, dome gone after attack
Communications dome at the Al Udeid air base before Iranian missile strike.
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC show the geodesic dome visible at the Al Udeid Air Base on the morning of June 23, just hours before the attack.
The U.S. Air Force’s 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, which operates out of the base, announced in 2016 the installation of the $15 million piece of equipment, known as a modernized enterprise terminal. Photos show a satellite dish inside of the dome, known as a radome.
Images taken June 25 and every day subsequently show the dome is gone, with some damage visible on a nearby building. The rest of the base appears largely untouched in the images.
It’s possible a fragment or something else struck the dome, but given the destruction of the dome, it was likely an Iranian attack, possibly with a bomb-carrying drone given the limited visible damage to surrounding structures.
The London-based satellite news channel Iran International first reported on the damage, citing satellite photos taken by a different provider.
Trump downplayed attack while Iran boasted about it
In the U.S., Trump described the Iranian attack as a “very weak response.” He had said that Tehran fired 14 missiles, with 13 intercepted and one being “set free” as it was going in a “nonthreatening” direction.
“I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured,” he wrote on his website Truth Social.
After the attack, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard insisted that the air base had been the “target of a destructive and powerful missile attack.” Iran’s Supreme National Security Council also said that the base had been “smashed,” without offering any specific damage assessments.
Potentially signaling that he knew the dome had been hit, an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei separately said that the base’s communications had been disconnected by the attack.
“All equipment of the base was completely destroyed and now the U.S. command stream and connection from Al Udeid base to its other military bases have been completely cut,” said Ahmad Alamolhoda, a hard-line cleric.
LIAR AND ACCOMPLICE TO TERRORISM LORD IAN BLAIR DIES
Former Metropolitan Police boss Lord Ian Blair has died at the age of 72. He was the force’s top cop as it hid up the truth of the 7/7 bombings in London which killed 52 people in 2005 and the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent man said to be mistaken for a terror suspect.
This was an inside job by Mossad and MI 5,
a false flag attack to build the case for Tony Blairs attack on Iraq
several muslim lads were led to believe they were taking part in an exercise, then murdered.
Lord Levy Tony Blairs lover and handler, said Police chief Ian Blair was ” in the bag ” this is intel speech for a person held through
blackmail.
If Jean Charles De Menezez, was really considered a terrorist
it is standard policy to take him alive, to shoot a man 7 times in the head, is to totally ensure silence, they knew he was innocent but had to be silenced, Police chief Ian Blair and Tony Blair over saw this evil.
Yes, a direct hit. Come on Donald Hitler, more fireworks please. Next time it might be one of your redundant nuclear carriers.
“In the U.S., Trump described the Iranian attack as a “very weak response.” He had said that Tehran fired 14 missiles, with 13 intercepted and one being “set free” as it was going in a “nonthreatening” direction.” — yet again proof if proof be needed, Trumpstein ( the orange golem LOL ) is a total and complete fool.
there are so many US bases around iran
that the US would never know which one or more would be hit
here in the UK service men are saying NO to more wars for israel
several men have been sent to prison for 6 months
real criminals have ben released to make room for them
Just more fantasy Iranian ‘missile attacks’ thanks to A.I./CGI images.
If the eeraanies guided this missile all the way to its target,with pinpoint precision.there must have been a ‘radio’link until impact.then surely they must have had a video feed.where are the videos then?…
……secret? Or was the thing programmed to hit a coordinate? Based on sat. ? Gps,starlink?…….
…btw its all bs.just hypothesising.
Owen Shroyer interviewed one of these American Christians who thinks we should be Zionists; I gritted my teeth and listened to this nobody. He had a “theological” basis, meaning he had been reading the Bible in some wonky way. I, on the other hand, was talking to God direct in the period 2008-10 and found that there is no group that is God’s People and he only has some scattered individuals
The Iranian attack otherwise did little damage — likely because of the fact that the U.S. evacuated its aircraft from the base, which is home to the forward headquarters of the U.S. military’s Central Command, before the attack.
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How many aircrafts did they move out?where did they park them? From the biggest parking lot in the middle east to…..?other bases? Why have these movements not been documented? I may assume there were at least a hundred war planes.ordered airborne to evade a Persian rocket barrage, from thrashing ’em all around………………..why move ’em out?udeid is one of the best guarded us bases.surely they can defend their airspace from a stray iranian rocket?why move all your airplanes from base?just for one iranie rocket?……….Trump also has said that Iran signaled when and how it would retaliate, allowing American and Qatari air defense to be ready for the attack, which briefly disrupted air travel in the Middle East, but otherwise didn’t tip over.what is this?
I love 💕 propaganda.its a brain game to me.more variables of colour than a Rubik’s cube.more actors than in a farçe.more props than ‘TEAM AMERICA ‘……… sometimes I ax myself:is life real?or are we just NPC in a propaganda matrix.?
If they moved the planes out? Should these planes not be defending the restricted military airspace over and around udeid? Should a base of this size not immediately eliminate all incoming threats from afar???awacs , fighters ,drones
It is called Modern Enterprise Terminal (MET).
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/644061/met-provides-secure-comms-to-warfighter/
MET under the dome is said to be $15 million (price for 2016) and using satellites it links all US bases in the region under US CENTCOM with US main land; during the final hours approaching the Trump’s declared ceasefire time, Iran continued hammering Zion and apparently due to the loss of this MET they (Zion) did not have “early warning” that was based on the network of regional radars, so they could not warn their people in time to get to shelters. There were reports of hectic and out of sync alarms.
US spent the largest ever number of patriot missiles in the attack on CENTCOM in Qatar, likely 30-50 each costing some ~$4 million. The MET was likely destroyed by one highly accurate Fateh-313 solid-fuel short-range missile.