Commercial satellite images are showing the extent of damage to Iran’s military facilities after a coordinated U.S. and Israeli campaign that began with a daytime attack on Tehran. The opening strikes hit Iran’s Leadership House in central Tehran; smoke was still visible at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound following the attack that killed the supreme leader.
Images from multiple providers show strikes across the country. Satellite photos captured burning vessels at the Konarak naval base in southern Iran and damage to a nearby airbase where hardened aircraft shelters appear to have been struck by precision munitions. Additional imagery shows destroyed buildings at a drone base in the same area.
U.S. forces have targeted Iranian naval assets as part of the campaign. President Trump posted that he had been briefed U.S. forces had sunk nine Iranian naval vessels; U.S. Central Command said it had struck an Iranian warship in port but did not immediately confirm that total. Satellite photos of Konarak show at least one ship burning in port.
Iran’s most powerful weapons—long-range missiles—have been stored deep inside mountain tunnels. Satellite imagery taken in northern Iran indicates some of those tunnel sites were hit in the initial wave of strikes.
Iran has responded with its own assaults across the Middle East, launching drones and missiles toward Israel and U.S. military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. Many of those drones were intercepted, but video and local reports show some evaded defenses and caused damage in Gulf countries. Dubai’s government said debris from an Iranian drone struck and damaged the Burj Al Arab.
Satellite images also captured large crowds of mourners in Tehran’s Enghelab Square after Khamenei’s death. Iran declared 40 days of mourning. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters Iran will continue to fight “foreign aggression, foreign domination.”
A White House official told NPR that President Trump plans to speak with Iran’s interim leadership “eventually,” but that U.S. operations in the region continue “unabated.”