SAEDNEWS: Iran alerted the United States half a day in advance of its ballistic missile barrage on U.S. military installations in Qatar, a senior source revealed to the Tehran Times—raising serious questions about Washington’s public handling of the retaliatory strike.
According to Saed News, Iran notified the United States 12 hours before launching its June 23 missile strike on the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, a development first disclosed by a senior Iranian source in an exclusive with the Tehran Times. The source claimed the warning led to a swift evacuation of U.S. personnel across multiple sites in West Asia, although no specific base was named in the alert.
“After our warning, they evacuated their bases in West Asia out of fear,” the source told the Iranian daily, emphasizing that Iran was not seeking to trigger mass casualties but to deliver a proportional military response.
On June 23, Iran fired 14 ballistic missiles at the Al Udeid facility—Washington’s largest military hub in the region—mirroring the number of munitions used by the U.S. in its own strike on Iranian nuclear facilities two days earlier. The Biden administration downplayed the impact, with President Donald Trump asserting that 13 missiles were intercepted and one landed harmlessly in open desert.
However, footage filmed by a Qatari resident contradicted that narrative, showing multiple impacts near the airbase. Tehran remained publicly silent until Sunday, when Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, stated that six of the missiles hit their intended targets inside the compound.
The revelation of Tehran’s pre-strike warning adds a new dimension to the evolving conflict dynamics in the region. While the Biden administration has framed Iran’s missile launch as escalatory, the prior communication suggests a calculated maneuver intended to avoid direct U.S. casualties while signaling strategic resolve.
