And Ian, we're now hearing from the Qatari Defense Ministry.

They say that the Qatari air defenses successfully intercepted a missile attack targeting

Al-Udid air base.

Again, that is the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East.

This news from Qatar

today, Iran launched missiles targeting an American military base in Qatar.

Officials said Iran also fired on Iraq.

The strikes were in response to U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend,

in support of Israel's war against Iran.

How big of a deal was this U.S. strike?

It was massive.

It is the first time that the United States and Israel have coordinated on a military operation.

That's never happened before.

So that alone, I think, is a pretty huge deal.

That's our colleague Shandy Race, the journal's Deputy Bureau Chief for the Middle East.

This was a massive show of U.S. force and military power.

This was something that only the United States could do.

There's no other country in the world, including Israel, that has the capability to drop the kind of bombs on Iran that the United

States dropped. And so it shows a very coordinated U.S. and Israel relationship and sends a very strong message not only to Iran, but the other players in the region that U.S. and Israeli force is dominant.

President Trump claimed the Fordo site and other key nuclear facilities were, quote, completely and totally obliterated.

The UN's atomic energy agency says the damage at Fordo was expected to be very significant,

though the extent of the destruction at the underground facility is hard to determine.

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