The UK prime minister said further military assets are being deployed to provide “contingency support” across the region amid escalating hostilities between the two long-time foes.

The United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has stated that RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East, after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help to stop strikes on Israel.

The UK prime minister said further military assets are being deployed to provide “contingency support” across the region amid escalating hostilities between the two long-time foes.

This comes as Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened to “hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs' regime” in Iran, as tensions between Israel and Tehran continue to escalate.

The two countries targeted each other with missiles and airstrikes on Saturday after Israel launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear and military structure.

Netanyahu had claimed that the strikes on Iran had set their nuclear programme back, possibly by years, and that heavier blows were yet to come.

Iran's state TV reported that around 60 people, including 20 children, were killed in an Israeli attack on a housing complex in Tehran.

Earlier, the country’s ambassador told the UN Security Council that at least 78 people had been killed and more than 300 wounded in the strikes on Iran.

SaharaReporters had earlier reported that Israel issued a fresh chilling warning to Iran, vowing to turn Tehran into a blazing ruin if missile attacks on Israeli territory persist, following a dramatic escalation in hostilities between the two nations.

Israeli Defence Minister, Israel Katz, reacting to the ongoing barrage of Iranian missiles allegedly hitting residential areas, declared that Tehran had crossed a red line.

"If Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn," Katz had said in a strongly worded statement on Saturday.

The statement followed a wave of retaliatory attacks from Iran, launched in response to Friday’s devastating Israeli airstrikes that targeted Iran's nuclear infrastructure and military leadership.