Israel – Iran missile attack latest: Tehran threatens ‘more crushing attacks’ after Israeli campaign against Hezbollah as US warns of ‘severe consequences’

Sir Keir Starmer has warned he is “deeply concerned” the Middle East “is on the brink”.

In a televised address from Downing Street, the UK Prime Minister also said that Britain stands with Israel.

Iran’s foreign ministry called on the United Nations Security Council to take “meaningful action” to prevent threats against regional peace and security, after Tehran launched a salvo of missiles on Tuesday against Israel in retaliation for the killing of several leaders of Iran-aligned armed groups.

Sir Keir Starmer “condemned Iran’s attack on Israel in the strongest terms” after speaking to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night, a Downing Street spokesperson has said.

The attack on Israel “began during the leader’s conversation,” the spokesperson said. In the same call, Sir Keir also “underlined the importance of a ceasefire in Lebanon”.

Iran said it fired dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said they used hypersonic ‘fattah’ missiles “for the first time” in its missile attack on Israel on Tuesday, Iranian state TV has reported.

In a statement, they also updated the number of successful targets they claimed to have hit in Israel to 90 per cent.

Jordan reopened its airspace on Tuesday following a salvo of Iranian ballistic missiles fired towards neighbouring Israel, the Jordanian state news agency reported.

Iran did not give the United States prior notice of its attack on Israel on Tuesday, Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York said.

“No notice was given to the United States prior to our response; however, a serious warning was issued afterwards,” the Iranian mission said in a statement.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday that Iran’s attack on Israel appeared to have been defeated, although President Biden’s administration was still monitoring a “fluid” situation.

Sullivan said the administration was tracking the reported death of a Palestinian civilian in the West Bank.

US destroyers joined Israeli air units against the “defeated and ineffective” Iranian ballistic missile attack, a US official has said.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Tehran issued a “decisive response” against Israel.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has said they targeted three Israeli military bases in its missile attack, according to an Iranian news agency.