Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday his country had delivered a "slap to America’s face” with its strike on a U.S. airbase in Qatar.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced it carried out a “devastating and powerful missile attack” on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. “This base is the headquarters of the Air Force and the largest strategic asset of the US terrorist army in the West Asia region,” the statement said.

Qatar's prime minister said on Tuesday relations with Iran have been scarred by an Iranian missile volley at a U.S. airbase in the Gulf Arab state, but that he hoped ties would eventually "come back to normal".