Qatar closed its airspace Monday, and witnesses reported listening to explosions and seeing potential missiles within the sky, shortly earlier than Iran stated it had begun an operation towards a U.S. base within the nation.
Iran introduced the assault on state tv, with a caption describing the retaliatory strikes as “a mighty and profitable response by the armed forces of Iran to America’s aggression.”
The Doha airport closure got here a number of hours after the U.S. and United Kingdom urged their residents within the energy-rich nation to shelter in place with out elaborating, in response to the Related Press.
Earlier Monday, the Trump administration expressed confidence that Saturday’s bombings of nuclear websites in Iran did the job of dismantling Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“This strike on Saturday did make our homeland safer as a result of it took away Iran’s capacity to create a nuclear bomb. This can be a regime that threatens ‘demise to America,’ and ‘demise to Israel, they usually now not have the aptitude to construct this nuclear weapon and threaten the world,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ABC Information on Monday morning.
As assessments of the damage achieved to the three websites — Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz — proceed, the world awaits Iran’s response to the U.S. strikes.
Iran’s overseas minister, Abbas Araghchi was in Moscow on Monday, meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia stated it is able to help Iran.
Again in D.C., Senate Republicans face a vital stretch in shifting Trump’s agenda ahead, with the “large, stunning” tax-and-spending invoice anticipated to hit the ground by midweek. The Senate parliamentarian is assessing the laws and approving, or in some circumstances knocking down, provisions that may permit it a fast-tracked vote.
Within the Home, the annual budgeting course of begins, forward of the fiscal 12 months’s finish on Sept. 30.
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