NATO announced Thursday it is increasing its “Alliance-wide ballistic missile defense posture” until “the threat from Iran’s continued indiscriminate attacks across the region subsides.”

“I can confirm that yesterday, in addition to NATO’s successful intercept of a ballistic missile from Iran that targeted Turkey, which that nation was the first to announce, NATO increased its Alliance-wide ballistic missile defense posture,” read a statement from Col. Martin L. O’Donnell, the spokesperson for NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.

“This immediate action was taken by the commander of NATO’s Air Command, who further recommended NATO’s ballistic missile defense posture remain at this heightened level until the threat from Iran’s continued indiscriminate attacks across the region subsides,” he added.