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Two more missiles fired by US-led forces fell into southwest Iran, close to the border with Iraq, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
An Iranian military commander also told the agency on Saturday that British and US warplanes violated Iranian airspace several times on Friday and Saturday during operations against targets in southern Iraq.
On Friday, an oil refinery depot in the city of Abadan, about 50 km east of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, was hit by a rocket, injuring two people.
The Iranian authorities has lodged a protest against the violation of Iranian airspace by British and American warplanes, with the British ambassador in Tehran and his Swiss counterpart, who looks after US interests in Iran.
(Xinhua News Agency March 22, 2003)
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