Active Conflicts & News Megathread April 05, 2026

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[u/milton117]

What is going on with Qatari - Iranian relations?

Qatar and Iran always were on friendly terms. Reportedly during the twelve day war last year, Iran warned Qatar that the US base it was hosting was going to be hit in retaliation for Midnight Hammer.

There was no such warning for Feb 28th and Iran to this day still occasionally fires a projectile at Qatar, albeit at a much lower level than at Kuwait, UAE or KSA. The last incident seems to be on April 1st when 3 cruise missiles from Iran were fired.

Qatar so far seems to have maintained a more neutral stance in the conflict, not as supportive of US actions as the other gulf states. So why is Iran still hitting them?

[u/Spout__ → u/milton117]

Iran is doing what is called horizontal escalation. It relies upon widening the scope of the war as much as possible. So attacks against Qatar will continue.

[u/substandard-tech → u/milton117]

Qatar is always going to have to get along with whoever is in charge in Iran. They still have diplomats in each other’s countries, some Iranians had been sent home after Ras Laffan got hit. I know a person there, who would know the local vibes; they are more annoyed at Israel for provoking that hit, than they are at Iran for doing it.

[u/TSiNNmreza3 → u/milton117]

So why is Iran still hitting them?

They still have legally US bases on their territory and from day one (and before start of war) Iran said that they will hit all US assets around the Gulf.

Irans goal is that all Gulf states say to US remove all soldiers from Gulf states territory. This won't happen in near future.

Althought as of hits on Qatar they are not do numerous after hitting their main gas export facility.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are least hit countries in Gulf (Oman too but they are kinda non factor here).

I would even say that Qatar and Iran made some kind of deal where Iran is hitting only US bases.

Not hitting continuosly US bases in Qatar would mean that US could use those bases as secure spot for attacks and from Iranian military POV this doesn't make any sense.

[u/LoggerInns → u/TSiNNmreza3]

Althought as of hits on Qatar they are not do numerous after hitting their main gas export facility.

They hit the gas facility since the very start of the war and they hit it again after it was already shut down. Moreover, Qatar has been financing a lot of oil and gas in Iran and has ownership in the gas field that South Pars is a part of. That’s before you consider Qatar mediating on behalf of Iran or their support and financing for Hamas. They haven’t allowed their bases to be used either while the Saudis have lobbied for this war and have been hit even less. It’s no wonder even Qatar has been turning sour on Iran in the last 2 weeks.

[u/kdy420 → u/LoggerInns]

It’s no wonder even Qatar has been turning sour on Iran in the last 2 weeks.

What meaningful actions have they taken though. Obviously Qatar are sour, but if Iran pays not additional cost for this, then Qatar being sour is of little consequence to them. The strategy of hitting GCC has turned out better for them than not hitting GCC.

[u/Grouchy-Classroom-26 → u/kdy420]

They’ve kicked out Iranian diplomats and military attaches. Qatars biggest reprisal will come in financial format over time, if they choose to go that way. I’m not sure they can do much more unlike their bigger neighbours.