India, March 5 -- Iranian bomber were just minutes away from striking the largest key US military base in Qatar's Doha before Qatari jets reportedly shot them down on Monday, the third day of the drone-missile exchange across the Middle East region sparked by US-Israel strikes on Iran that killed their Supreme Leader - Ayatollah Khamenei - and intensified by Tehran's retaliation.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRCG) on Monday morning sent two Soviet-era Su-24 tactical bombers toward al-Udeid Air Base in Doha - the largest military base housing US troops in the Middle East - and key natural gas processing facility Ras Laffan - known to be a bedrock of the Qatari economy, according to a CNN report, which cited two sources in the know of the o...