Two soldiers were killed in Israeli air strikes on military installations in Iran on Saturday, according to the Iranian army.
“The army of the Islamic Republic of Iran lost two of its fighters during the night when they faced projectiles from the criminal Zionist regime in defence of its territory,” the army said in a statement carried by state television.
Israel struck military sites in Iran earlier on Saturday, saying it was retaliating against Tehran’s strikes on Israel this month.
It was the latest attack in the escalating conflict between the heavily armed rivals.
The Israeli military later announced it had finished carrying out its strikes on Iran.
After the strikes, a Jordanian Armed Forces source told state media no military planes belonging to any conflicting regional parties were allowed to cross the country’s airspace.
The semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps bases that were attacked were not damaged and said Iran was resuming flights from 9am, local time, after a suspension during Israel’s attack.
Neighbouring Iraq was also resuming flights, its state news agency said.
The United Arab Emirates has condemned the strikes on Iran and stressed the importance of exercising “maximum restraint” to avoid escalation.
Saudi Arabia condemned the attack on Iran as a “violation of its sovereignty” and international laws.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Iran should not respond to the wave of Israeli strikes and urged restraint on all sides.
Hamas said it strongly condemned Israeli strikes on military targets in Iran.
“We … condemn in the strongest terms the Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the targeting of military sites in several provinces,” the movement said in a statement.
The militant group called the move “a blatant violation of Iranian sovereignty and an escalation that threatens the security of the region”.