Jordan's army said it intercepted five Iranian missiles on Wednesday, Tehran's first regional strike in days following a pause in fighting between it and the United States.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed the attack, saying it was in response to "the aggressive actions" of the United States, without elaborating.
"Air defences this morning dealt with five missiles coming from Iran targeting the kingdom's territory," the spokesman of the Jordanian army said in a statement, adding that the missiles were "intercepted and downed".
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement carried by state TV that its Aerospace Force "targeted a US airbase and the US Central Command Centre in Jordan with several ballistic missiles."
"As long as the threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran continue... the resistance will continue," the statement added.
The attack came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Iran's arch-nemesis, visited Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump.
The attack was the first Iranian strike on regional countries since Friday, when the US and the Islamic republic stopped their attacks after trading fire for a fortnight.
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