Israel - Iran missile attack latest: Tehran threatens ‘more crushing attacks’ as US warns of ‘severe consequences’

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.

Caitlin Doherty reports:

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.

The United States on Tuesday called on every nation in the world to join it in condemning Iran's attack on Israel after Tehran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel, which the State Department said was a brazen and unacceptable attack.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Washington at this time was not aware of any damage to US facilities in the attack. He said the US had no warning from the government of Iran that they were going to launch such an attack.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that two US Navy destroyers fired about a dozen interceptors against Iranian missiles aimed at Israel.

Pentagon spokesperson Major General Patrick Ryder told reporters that no other US military assets were used to shoot down the missiles, which were all fired from inside Iran.