(NewsNation) — As details of “Operation Midnight Hammer” begin to emerge from the Pentagon, officials in Qatar say they are receiving conflicting reports on the efficacy of the attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.
But amid those reports, government leaders there also insist that no one in the region wants “eternal war” and that the nation can see “the light at the end of a very long tunnel,” the adviser to Qatar Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jblockim Al Thani tells NewsNation.
Majed al-Ansari, the prime minister’s adviser and spokesman for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told NewsNation exclusively that while the ceasefire between Iran and Israel remains “fragile,” Qatari officials and residents alike remain hopeful that peace may soon be maintained in the region.
Unwilling to give in to pessimism, Qatar remains confident in President Donald Trump, who has declared the war between the two Middle Eastern countries over. Yet as Trump conveys that Israel and Iraq are both tired of fighting and likely won’t return to exchanging volleying missile attacks, those living in Qatar are hoping for peace.
“There are no people around the world that want to be under rockets under fire, afraid for their lives (and) afraid for their children’s lives forever,” al-Ansari told NewsNation in an exclusive interview. “The only message that is truly universal is a message of hope. In our region here everyone shouts death to somebody.
“The only way around that is to make sure the deterrence is in place, they don’t act upon these threats. And that the message of hope is on the table, dialogue is taking place for that to happen, and we believe President Trump can bring this to the region.”
Trump, along with other top administration officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have declared the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program a complete success, insisting the bunker busters dropped on key nuclear sites were devastating to Iran’s nuclear program.
Caine outlined details of the attack Thursday after clblockified information about “Operation Midnight Hammer” was leaked, leading Hegseth and other White officials to blame the media for questioning the success of the operation.
But al-Ansari said that as of now, whether that is true remains inconclusive, at least in the minds of Qatar’s prime minister and other top officials.
“I don’t think anyone right now can claim firsthand knowledge on what is happening,” he said. “We have heard President Trump’s statements on obliterating the sites. I think we need more time to blockess what happened with Iran and the nuclear program.”
Yet as more becomes known about the specifics of what went into the weekend attack on the key nuclear sites, al-Ansari told NewsNation that Qatar did not prenegotiate what time the attack would happen. The attack came after Iran announced it would discontinue the ongoing negotiations with the United States about its nuclear capabilities.
“No country in the world would accept being attacked for any purpose, whether it be for mediation or anything else,” Al-Ansari said. “This was a surprise to us. We did not expect to be attacked by a country we were helping mediate between them and the U.S. at the same time.”
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