New satellite photographs from Planet Labs PBC reviewed by the Associated Press indicate that an Iranian strike on 23 June destroyed a geodesic dome housing secure U.S. communications equipment at Al Udeid Air Base outside Doha, Qatar. Images taken two days after the attack show the structure replaced by a blackened crater and scorch marks on an adjacent hangar, while the rest of the facility appears largely intact. The dome contained a $15 million Modernized Enterprise Terminal installed by the U.S. Air Force in 2016 to provide encrypted voice, video and data links across the Central Command theatre. U.S. officials had moved aircraft out of the base before the attack, and U.S. and Qatari air defences intercepted 13 of the 14 ballistic missiles Iran launched, according to President Donald Trump. No casualties were reported and neither Washington nor Doha has publicly acknowledged the damage. Tehran said the strike was retaliation for U.S. bombings of three Iranian nuclear sites earlier the same day, part of a 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel that ended after a cease-fire brokered by Trump. While the former U.S. president called Iran’s response “very weak,” Iranian officials claimed the base’s communications were severed. The latest imagery, showing the communications radome gone, offers the clearest evidence to date of at least one successful Iranian hit on U.S. infrastructure in the Gulf.