Name: Iranian drone hits Oman’s Salalah oil tanks as Qatar and Saudi Arabia intercept attacks
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We begin in Iran's capital, Tehran with Al Jazeera's Mohamed Val.

Mohammed, what's the IRGC saying on its operations in Hormuz?

Well Adrian, in their latest statements they are saying that the time of retaliations is over and now it's full out war.

Because this is a time, this is a stage at which the country has realized that it is, its existence is at stake and there is no time anymore or occasion for talking about tit for tat operations.

This is a time when Iran has to do use every means it has to defend itself.

So I mean the most outstanding thing there also in their statements today is that the Strait of Hormuz is now a no go area and that no liter of oil will pass there without the permission of Iran.

Talking about those three ships that have been hit, the IRGC said that they belong to, they are under different flags but, but

they work for the United States and Israel.

They are related to those two countries that are waging an aggression on Iran.

ILGC talking also about a new wave of strikes against the region, against targets in the region, including in Israel.

In their 3131st statement, Operation True Promise for the public relations office of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard says two simultaneous and heavy missile strikes on the Al Adiri helicopter base left a large number of American soldiers decimated and more than 100 wounded were transferred to the Al Jaber and Al Mubarak hospitals in Kuwait.

So some specifics there about the number of casualties among American troops in a base in Kuwait.

Also talked about hitting at targets of security, security related targets inside the Israeli.

Dmitry Medvedenko who's live for us now in Doha.

What more do we know, Dmitry, about those Iranian attacks on the Strait of Hormuz?

Well, what we know is that in the past 24 hours, three ships have been hit.

Now specifically, let's talk about one of them and that is the Thai flag, Mayuri Nari.

But what's special special about this one, Adrian, is that it was not anchored, it was not stationary, it was moving.

It was attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz at around 3:00am local time.

So as you said, Iran's attacks across the ships across the Strait of Hormuz, this is 14 ships altogether now have effectively stopped traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, but

So this ship was trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz and it was hit by two projectiles hitting the engine room.

It called for help and the Oman's coast guard helped save 20 of them.

And three are still listed as missing who are believed to be trapped in the engine room of the vessel.

The two other ships, one was flying, flying a Japanese flag and the other one a Marshall Islands flag.

These were stationed in different parts of the Strait of Hormuz.

They were anchored and they got hit also by one projectile each.

And at the same time that no casualties or damage was reported.

As we saw from Tawhid's report, there were funerals today for the leadership killed 12 days ago.

The Iranian high command clearly still holding out Mohammed.

And what happened today, the ceremony of those funerals is a message of defiance and a message of Iran's unity and Iran still standing on its feet.

We have seen, I mean, the estimates are from a few hundred thousand to a few million.

And nobody knows the exact number, but it is a huge amount of people.

And the fact that they are in the public square when bombs were falling right and left is exactly the gesture that the Iranians wanted to do today to send to the world that no matter what and no matter how the war is raging and how fierce or ferocious it is, the Iranians are going to go out in their thousands and in their millions to show solidarity with their government and their martyrs.

We know that the late supreme leader of the Iranian revolution hasn't yet been buried.

And that's very significant because it, because, I mean, it's something that the Iranians are talking about.

And the meaning of that is that they want to do that in more favorable circumstances because he deserves like a much bigger gathering of people and security of those people has to be guaranteed.

But today we have seen people going out in huge numbers, careless about their security, because their priority number one is to show that they are ready to sacrifice even their lives to show solidarity to their leaders and to show that Iran is still a united country and a defiant country.

Dimitri and Doha, there were by my count at least three missile attacks or at least interceptions over Doha throughout the day.

What's been happening today across the Gulf?

Well, let's start with Oman, actually, because this development seems to be the most significant one.

In the past 24 hours where Iranian drones struck oil storage facilities in the port of Salalah.

We've seen plumes of smoke and a fire coming from, from the these facilities.

Although the Omani state news agency, quoting Energy Ministry officials, said that basically no damage has been done to fuel product flow in the country and there is no impact on continuity of oil supplies or petroleum derivatives.

After this incident, there was a phone call between Iran's President Masoud Pecheskan and the Sultan of Oman, Haytam bin Tariq Al said.

Now the sultan expressed condemnation disappointment in the attack, while the Iranian president said that Iran only targets countries who are hosting locations and bases from where attacks are launched on Iran and any other incidents will be thoroughly investigated elsewhere.

Yes, we had three times that our phones were blasting here in Doha starting from the morning, two in the afternoon.

But it appears that damage has been somewhat limited and contained.

We didn't see any reports of any damage or any casualties coming up from these interceptions.

The Qatari prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdrahman Al Thani, had a cabinet meeting today, it's a regular cabinet meeting for a Wednesday, where he said that Qatar is enjoying safety, it is a blessing.

And at the same time condemned these attacks, saying that they're contrary to, you know, good neighborly relations in the region and go contrary to all understanding of regional peace is damaging regional peace and the global economy.

Elsewhere, what we've seen, Saudi Arabia shot down Several drones, 11 drones that were headed to the east of the country to an oil field there.

And in the uae, two drones hit Dubai's airport, injuring four people.

We understand that most of them are staff employees.

And there was also a fire at Abu Dhabi's old airport, but the fire was contained rather quickly.

Adrian Dmitry Metavernenko in Doha and Mohamed Valin, Tehran, many thanks to you both.