🌎 Everything You Need To Know About Iran's Missile Attack On US Air Base In Qatar

ABC's Riley Stuart joins Jonesy & Amanda live from Tel Aviv.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, within the last few hours, you've heard this on
our news. Iran has retaliated to the US attacks, launching
air strikes on the largest American military basing, Qatar in
the Middle East. Trump has recently taken to truth social
and said, I'm pleased to report no Americans were harmed
and no damage was done. Most importantly, they've got it
out of their system and there'll be no further hat

(00:26):
on the ground. We're crossing now to ABC journalist Riley Stewart,
who is in Teliviv.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Riley, Hello, Oh, hi guys, thanks for having me. Wow,
is there any truth to that there's no damage? They
drop a bomb and there's no damage. It's really interesting, right,
because sometimes you drop bombs and you don't want them
to hit anything, and that's kind of what Iran have

(00:51):
done in this situation. There's something really important, right because
they've been firing missiles at people for the last ten days.
But when they shoot them at Israel, they don't give
any warning, they just fire them. When they shot them
at Katar in the last few hours, they gave them
plenty of notice. And that's really important because a lot

(01:13):
of Australians for instance, would have flown through the airport
in Qatar. It's a massive hub for commercial flight. So
give the government a chance to tell all the planes
to get out of the airspace, to get to safer places,
and it gives the US a chance to evacuate their base,
which they did. They moved their ten thousand troops away.
So that's really important because it's like you fire these

(01:36):
missiles to send a message, but you don't actually want
them to hurt anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
So where does that leave us in terms of how
we think this is going. Is this the end of
the retaliation? What does it mean?

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, based on the last sort of couple of tweets
from Donald Trump, it looks like it could be the
end of the retaliation between Iran and the US, But
really importantly, Katar is caught up in this as well,
and they've said that they reserve the right to retaliate too.

(02:11):
So even though it could be a full stop between
this conflict between the US and Iran, we're still expecting
it to carry on elsewhere. And it's really important to
point out that Israel launched its biggest, its biggest strikes
ever in Iran in the last twenty four hours, So
that is showing no signs of slowing down. Is Qatar.

(02:34):
That's on the America side, though, isn't it. They sort
of have a bit of a bet each way, to
be honest. They've got a Taliban office there and they
house hamasa's political bureau as well as the US base.
So it's a really complicated place. And even though they say, yeah,
the best way to describe, but Joni is they sort

(02:56):
of have a bet each way, if that makes sense. See,
I'd like to do in the lunch truck shows up
and lunch time, you know, the catering truck.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
And they've got all the options, all the options. So
if this is a full stop on what America has
done and the bunker busting, bombs, et cetera. But America
still has picked a scab that is now going to
be bigger than ever. That's kind of what their hands
of this because this could go on for years, in
yars and years.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well yeah, I mean, I think that's a really good point, Amanda.
And it has gone on for decades in various different capacities.
This situation, if you like, in the Middle East, and
if we've learned anything over the past ten days, it's
that it's absolutely capable of flaring up again. And as

(03:44):
I said before, even if the US draw a line
under their involvement in this in this conflict, and it
has to be said, it's been a significant involvement. They
dropped their most powerful non nuclear bombs on on Iran,
so that in itself is significant, but it will go

(04:05):
on elsewhere. Israel and Iran have given no indication that
they plan to stop attacking each other anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Well, there we have it. Riley Stewart, thank you for
joining us.