The retaliatory strikes came on Saturday, a day after Israel killed top Iranian military leaders and scientists and destroyed an aboveground nuclear enrichment plant near Natanz.

Fresh explosions were reported in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Sunday afternoon local time after Iran's president warned of "more painful and crushing responses" to Israeli strikes. Israel launched the first of a series of airstrikes across Iran late on Thursday U.

The military confrontation between Israel and Iran escalated further on Wednesday, marking the sixth straight day of conflict as both nations continued to exchange fresh missile strikes. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed it had fired a Fattah-1 hypersonic missile at Israel - the first reported use of this weapon in the current hostilities,