{"id":311931,"date":"2025-07-12T05:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=311931"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:01:38","slug":"satellite-photos-suggest-iran-attack-on-qatar-air-base-hit-geodesic-dome-used-for-us-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=311931","title":{"rendered":"Satellite photos suggest Iran attack on Qatar air base hit geodesic dome used for US communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Satelelitte photo of the Al Udeid air base in Qatar<\/p>\n

Jon Gambrell \u2013 AP News July 11, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

An Iranian attack on an air base in Qatar<\/a> that\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military and Qatar didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment over the damage, which so far hasn\u2019t been publicly acknowledged.<\/p>\n

The Iranian attack on Al Udeid Air Base<\/a> outside of Doha, Qatar\u2019s capital, on June 23 came as a response to the American bombing of three nuclear sites<\/a> in Iran \u2014 and provided the Islamic Republic a way to retaliate that quickly led to a ceasefire<\/a> brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump ending the 12-day Iran-Israel war.<\/p>\n

The Iranian attack otherwise did little damage \u2014 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\u2019s Central Command, before the attack.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t tip over into the regional war long feared by analysts.<\/p>\n

Images show burn marks, dome gone after attack<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Communications dome at the Al Udeid air base before Iranian missile strike.<\/p><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Air Force\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The London-based satellite news channel Iran International first reported on the damage, citing satellite photos taken by a different provider.<\/p>\n

Trump downplayed attack while Iran boasted about it<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the U.S., Trump described the Iranian attack as a \u201cvery weak response.\u201d He had said that Tehran fired 14 missiles, with 13 intercepted and one being \u201cset free\u201d as it was going in a \u201cnonthreatening\u201d direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured,\u201d he wrote on his website Truth Social.<\/p>\n

After the attack, Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard insisted that the air base had been the \u201ctarget of a destructive and powerful missile attack.\u201d Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council also said that the base had been \u201csmashed,\u201d without offering any specific damage assessments.<\/p>\n

Potentially signaling that he knew the dome had been hit, an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei separately said that the base\u2019s communications had been disconnected by the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll 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,\u201d said Ahmad Alamolhoda, a hard-line cleric.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite Trump’s denials, satellite images of the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar indicate that key buildings housing vital communications equipment were destroyed in Iranian missile strikes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":311933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311931"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311973,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311931\/revisions\/311973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/311933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}