Iraq, its economy in tatters, faced tougher sanctions today after the United Nations named goods such as drugs, trucks and boats that cannot be imported without prior approval.
US and British warplanes attacked Iraqi air defences after the Iraqis flew military aircraft into the southern "no-fly" zone, the US military said.
The 15-nation UN Security Council voted 13-0 to adopt the resolution expanding the list of civilian goods under sanctions. Russia and Syria abstained.
The United States and Britain cautioned Iraq against seeing this as a sign of divisions over its obligation - under former council resolutions - to give up weapons of mass destruction or face "serious consequences".
Iraq said the resolution would aggravate the suffering of its people, who have been under UN economic sanctions since Iraq invaded neighbouring Kuwait in 1990.
"We confirm that the Security Council should lift the sanctions and that Iraq has met all its obligations with regard to Security Council resolutions," Iraqi envoy Mr Mohammed S. Ali told reporters.
Additions to the UN sanctions list range from drugs to protect Iraqi soldiers from poison gas and anthrax to boats like those used in a deadly attack on a US warship two years ago.
At its headquarters in Florida, the US Central Command said in a statement that US and British aircraft used precision-guided weapons to target Iraqi air defence communications facilities and an air defence mobile radar in strikes yesterday.
It marked the second straight day and the fourth in five days that the Western aircraft have attacked Iraqi targets in the southern no-fly zone.