Nigeria, June 23 -- Iran has launched an attack on the United States' Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in retaliation for the US strike on its nuclear facilities.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the launch of its retaliatory strikes on Monday, a day after the US attack, which is believed to be in support of Israel, which commenced attacks on Iran on 13 June.

Although the Iranian government also announced strikes on a US base in Iraq, only the attack on the Qatari base has been confirmed at the time of this report.

PREMIUM TIMES reports that earlier on Monday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, vowed to punish its "Zionist enemy," while describing the attack as a mistake and a "big crime."

Several explosions we...