Iran's armed forces have said their missile attacks on Israel targeted military installations.
The Ramat David airbase, located south-east of the city of Haifa, was attacked with ballistic missiles, according to a statement by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published by the Iranian news agency Tasnim on Sunday.
In the statement, Iran's elite force justified the attacks by citing Israel's attacks in Lebanon. The ceasefire in the Iran war at the beginning of April had been negotiated on the premise that the conflict must be halted on all fronts, the statement said.
"But as always, the US and the Zionist regime did not honour their commitments. They continued both their attacks and crimes in Lebanon and their repeated incursions into Iranian coastal areas," it continued.
The Revolutionary Guards described Sunday's attacks as a "warning." Should the war break out in full force again, "the responses will be more comprehensive and will include all US-Zionist targets in the region," they added.
Iran closed its airspace in the west of the country following the escalation, with the civil aviation authority citing new threat assessments, state news agency IRNA reported. The public has been asked to avoid travelling to airports and to follow media reports.
