Political strategist: Iran’s strike put Gulf region on alert

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00:00Ahmed, Qatar's prime minister has said relations with Iran have been scarred by the Iranian missile attack at the U.S. airbase in Doha.

00:10Are other U.S. bases in the Middle East now on high alert following that attack we saw this time yesterday?

00:18The whole area is basically on alert.

00:22It's going to probably take a while and all these kind of, let's say, alert codes goes down.

00:29Everything is possible.

00:30We're anticipating everything.

00:32I'm sure those back channels have been, you know, taken.

00:35But, you know, there is some other stuff we did not understand as an observer.

00:40You know, why Iran didn't hit the American base in Qatar?

00:45Well, Iraq is the traditional, it is the traditional base to hit.

00:50Or it's closer than Qatar.

00:52They could have hit the Anjur Lake in Turkey.

00:54So there's a lot of things that we've seen or the fifth fleet in the Arabian Gulf.

00:58So there's a lot of things that really to consider and to see.

01:02But definitely, I think the relationship between Iran and Qatar, it is probably, they assess this is the easiest, you know,

01:11probably country that they can have a back channel with.

01:14Qatar has been a promoter of peace and a mediator on the Iranian file on so many times.

01:19Probably there is, you know, a back channels over there.

01:23But still, it's basically conquering the Qatari space, sovereignty, all of that.

01:29This is not going to be forgave easy, not by Qatar or by the GCC.

01:33And then the U.K.

01:34So here is the Qatari space.

01:50Okay.

01:51Okay.