00:00It is day 21 of the war. Overnight, U.S.-Israeli airstrikes were launched against Tehran.
00:06Blasts heard across the capital. The strikes came as Iranians across the country and in the diaspora,
00:12communities around the world marked Nauru's, or the Persian New Year.
00:16Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country will heed Donald
00:20Trump's call and not repeat attacks on key Iranian energy sites like the South Park's
00:26field. A facility that was linked to the gas field was hit on Wednesday.
00:32The conflict has killed thousands, spread to neighboring nations, and hit the global economy.
00:37For more, let's speak to our regional correspondent, Hoda Abdelhamid in Doha.
00:41Hello to you, Hoda. Iran shows no signs of letting up on its attacks on the Gulf.
00:47What's the latest you have?
00:50Well, certainly, even though both President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sort
00:57of indicated that there won't be any more attacks on energy facilities inside Iran, it seems
01:04to have fallen on deaf ears. Iran continues to be defiant with a wave of attacks around the region,
01:11not here in Qatar, but in nearby UAE. The alert went off several times throughout the night. All
01:19drones and missiles intercepted, according to the government. But it's in Kuwait that there was
01:24the most significant damage. Again, the refinery of Al-Hamadi, Mina Al-Hamadi, rather, has been targeted,
01:34and there was a fire that seems to now be under control. However, the Kuwaiti authorities say they
01:42were obliged to close a unit of that refinery. There were also attacks intercepted in Saudi Arabia
01:50and in Bahrain, where some debris fell on a warehouse. So certainly, the intensity is continuing.
01:59Yeah, and Donald Trump said that he did know that Israel would strike energy facilities,
02:03but he promised it won't happen again. How are Gulf countries reacting to this?
02:09Well, you know, I think it's a situation of wait and see. Gulf countries are actually quite angry
02:16at the United States at the moment. You know, the words we heard from the Saudi foreign ministers two
02:25days ago, when he talked from Riyadh after the meeting with the Gulf foreign ministers were quite harsh.
02:32That's not something usual in this part of the world, where usually they like to have this kind
02:39of soft diplomacy and not speak too publicly about how they feel. You also saw it in the op-ed
02:48written
02:48by the Omani foreign minister that appeared in The Economist earlier this week. He questioned this war.
02:55He questioned who was in charge of America's foreign policy. And he said that if there was no—if they didn't
03:04realize that the repercussions will be felt on the Gulf region, then it was a great miscalculation.
03:12And then you also have from the UAE a very significant voice, Khalaf al-Haptur, one of the most prominent
03:18businessmen there, a tycoon, who wrote on social media specifically to Mr. Trump, asking him,
03:27who allowed you to carry out this war? Who allowed you to put our region in insecurity? That post went
03:34viral,
03:35really, across this region. So you are hearing, maybe not directly from the government itself,
03:42but certainly from very prominent people, scathing attacks on the American foreign policy and on
03:51President Trump himself, bearing in mind that this part of the world has invested trillions of dollars
03:58in the United States. So this is certainly not what they expected in return.
