The largest U.S. military base in the Middle East is in the small Gulf nation of Qatar.

And joining us from its capital, Doha, is special correspondent, Leila Malana Allen.

Leila, it's good to see you.

So you're in the Gulf right now. Based on your reporting, how are these attacks affecting countries across the region?

We have, we've come here just as many people are thinking about leaving as this conflict escalates.

This has been unprecedented for the Gulf nations.

Hundreds of cruise and ballistic missiles of drones have been launched at these countries by Iran.

On the first day of the conflict, nearly as many were fired at the UAE as were fired at Israel,

the country that was attacking Iran.

The calculation seems to have been that maybe the UAE is the most able to ask the United

States to stop.

Now at the moment, the missile defense systems here are doing a pretty good job of taking

down those missiles, the drones are trickier.

But the issue here is that what the Gulf nations have built is stability.

That is their key.

And Iran doesn't have to destroy these countries. It just has to pierce that stability to stop their success.

The second issue, of course, is they built it on wealth. Now, already with those missile defense systems, spending huge amounts of money, but also attacks on tourism, on hotels, on airports, and the stopping of three of the largest traffic airports in the world

for almost a week now in the Gulf at a cost of over a billion dollars. Now, the initial reaction,

of course, is angered Iran. Yesterday, Iran's foreign minister called the Qatari foreign

minister saying that we are not attacking the Gulf, we're just attacking the American presence there.

The Qatari Foreign Minister responded that was completely untrue.

They're dragging the Gulf into a war that is not their own.

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