Qatar has stated that the majority assaults throughout the current battle have been directed at US army amenities, whereas no civilian areas have been focused, based on an official doc submitted to the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU).
In a submit on X on Friday, September 4, Iranian International Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei highlighted Qatar’s security and safety danger evaluation, submitted to a unprecedented session of the ITU Council forward of the 2026 ITU Plenipotentiary Convention.
The doc stated direct assaults in opposition to particular targets in Qatar had ceased on April 1 and that “nearly the entire assaults have been directed in the direction of US army amenities”.
It recognized one exception involving an assault on gasoline amenities at Ras Laffan on March 18 however added that no civilian areas had been focused.
The evaluation stated the present focus of the battle was the continued deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz, the place delivery continued to face disruption. It stated army operations close to the waterway had no direct impression on Qatar’s safety state of affairs and assessed the chance from the present operations as low.
Baqaei stated the Qatari doc supported Iran’s assertion that its strikes in opposition to American forces stationed on Qatari soil have been aimed toward army amenities reasonably than civilian areas. He stated the Ras Laffan amenities struck on March 18 had been serving US army operations in opposition to Iran.
The Iranian spokesperson additionally accused the US of an extended document of assaults on civilian targets, together with colleges, hospitals, residential neighbourhoods, wedding ceremony ceremonies and bridges.
The remarks got here amid renewed army exchanges between the US and Iran following current US strikes on Iranian army targets and retaliatory Iranian assaults on US amenities throughout the area.
