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(NewsNation) — As details of “Operation Midnight Hammer” statesman to look from the Pentagon, officials successful Qatar accidental they are receiving conflicting reports connected the efficacy of the attacks connected Iran’s atomic program.
But amid those reports, authorities leaders determination besides importune that nary 1 successful the portion wants “eternal war” and that the federation tin spot "the airy astatine the extremity of a precise agelong tunnel," the advisor to Qatar Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani tells NewsNation.
Majed al-Ansari, the premier minister’s advisor and spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told NewsNation exclusively that portion the ceasefire betwixt Iran and Israel remains “fragile,” Qatari officials and residents alike stay hopeful that bid whitethorn soon beryllium maintained successful the region.
Unwilling to springiness successful to pessimism, Qatar remains assured successful President Donald Trump, who has declared the warfare between the 2 Middle Eastern countries over. Yet arsenic Trump conveys that Israel and Iraq are some bushed of warring and apt won’t instrumentality to exchanging volleying rocket attacks, those surviving successful Qatar are hoping for peace.
Interceptor missiles are fired, aft Iran's equipped forces accidental they targeted the Al-Udeid basal successful a rocket attack, arsenic seen from Doha, Qatar, June 23, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY“There are nary radical astir the satellite that privation to beryllium nether rockets nether fire, acrophobic for their lives (and) acrophobic for their children’s lives forever,” al-Ansari told NewsNation successful an exclusive interview. “The lone connection that is genuinely cosmopolitan is simply a connection of hope. In our portion present everyone shouts decease to somebody.
"The lone mode astir that is to marque definite the deterrence is successful place, they don’t enactment upon these threats. And that the connection of anticipation is connected the table, dialog is taking spot for that to happen, and we judge President Trump tin bring this to the region.”
Trump, on with different apical medication officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, person declared the U.S. onslaught connected Iran’s atomic programme a implicit success, insisting the bunker busters dropped connected cardinal atomic sites were devastating to Iran’s atomic program.
Caine outlined details of the onslaught Thursday aft classified accusation astir “Operation Midnight Hammer” was leaked, starring Hegseth and different White officials to blasted the media for questioning the occurrence of the operation.
But al-Ansari said that arsenic of now, whether that is existent remains inconclusive, astatine slightest successful the minds of Qatar’s premier curate and different apical officials.
“I don’t deliberation anyone close present tin assertion firsthand cognition connected what is happening,” helium said. “We person heard President Trump’s statements connected obliterating the sites. I deliberation we request much clip to measure what happened with Iran and the atomic program.”
Yet arsenic much becomes known astir the specifics of what went into the play onslaught connected the cardinal atomic sites, al-Ansari told NewsNation that Qatar did not prenegotiate what clip the onslaught would happen. The onslaught came aft Iran announced it would discontinue the ongoing negotiations with the United States astir its atomic capabilities.
“No state successful the satellite would judge being attacked for immoderate purpose, whether it beryllium for mediation oregon thing else,” Al-Ansari said. “This was a astonishment to us. We did not expect to beryllium attacked by a state we were helping mediate betwixt them and the U.S. astatine the aforesaid time.”
