Satellite images show damage to Iranian targets from US-Israeli air strikes
Satellite imagery analyzed by ABC News shows extensive damage to many military facilities across Iran in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on the country.
Images captured by satellite company Vantor on Sunday showed damage to several bases in the Konarak military complex in southern Iran.
A ship can be seen sinking in the naval base port and some nearby buildings are destroyed, while others are damaged.
The buildings at the nearby drone base are completely destroyed, alongside storage bunkers between the drone and naval bases. Aircraft shelters at the air base to the north of the complex also appear to be damaged or destroyed.
Images captured by Vantor on Monday show new damage to several buildings that are covering entrances to the underground fuel enrichment complex at the Natanz nuclear facility.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Tuesday that based on the new satellite imagery, they could now “confirm some recent damage” to the entrances to the nuclear fuel enrichment plant (FEP) at Natanz.
“No radiological consequence [is] expected and no additional impact [was] detected at the FEP itself, which was severely damaged in the June conflict,” the IAEA added.
Satellite images from across Iran show that nearly a dozen missile bases have also been targeted and damaged by U.S. or Israeli airstrikes.
"The IDF completed a broad strike on strategic defense systems of the Iranian regime," the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday, after the strikes began. Targets included "multiple strategic aerial defense systems, including an advanced SA-65 [air defense] system in the Kermanshah area of western Iran," the IDF said.
Sam Lair, who works on the Open-Source Intelligence Team at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, examined and analyzed the damage to several bases.
At one base south of Shiraz, imagery from Monday shows “one missile was damaged and leaking propellant. Several other launchers were destroyed, exploding and lighting a fire, which spread throughout the canyon,” Lair said.
At another missile base north of Isfahan, “a big explosion from a launcher caught on the move, and a missile checkout building damaged” could be seen on the imagery taken Sunday, Lair said.
"While nearly every Iranian missile base has been attacked by either the U.S. or the Israeli Air Force, the emphasis of the strikes so far has been on the trucks carrying and launching missiles," Lair added. "There has been some damage to supporting infrastructure, some buildings destroyed, and some tunnels attacked with bunker buster munitions, but many transporter-erector-launchers have been hit."
