Tehran, Oct 26 (UNI) Air traffic in Iran resumed normal operations following an Israeli attack on Iranian territory in the early hours of Saturday, the spokesman for the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, Jafar Yazerlu, said.

On Saturday, Yazerlu said that flights in Iran had been canceled until "further notice."

"Air traffic returned to normal operations at 9 a.m. [05:30 GMT]," Yazerlu was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said overnight to Saturday that it had struck military targets in Iran in response to the attacks on the Jewish state on October 1. CBS News reported, citing an unnamed source, that the Israeli attack on Iran had been limited to military targets without involving nuclear or oil facilities.

The Fars news agency reported that Israel had targeted a number of military bases in the west and southwest of Tehran. At the same time, the Tasnim news agency reported that military centers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of the country's armed forces), located in the west and southwest of the Iranian capital, had not been damaged.

A Sputnik correspondent reported that at around 4:25 a.m. Moscow time (01:25 GMT), a second series of explosions had been heard for about a minute near the Russian Embassy in central Tehran.

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