Satellite images show Iranian sites before and after airstrikes

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Satellite imagery captured Sunday and Monday by Vantor shows the aftermath of the U.S.-Israeli strikes connected aggregate sites successful Iran.

The U.S. struck much than 1,250 targets implicit the archetypal 2 days of Operation Epic Fury, according to a information expanse released by U.S. Central Command, which said the U.S. is hitting targets "to dismantle the Iranian regime's information apparatus, prioritizing locations that airs an imminent threat."

The outer images amusement harm to sites including the Choqa Balk-e drone facility, erstwhile Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound, the Natanz atomic analyzable and a radar strategy astatine Zahedan airbase.

Khamenei compound

Khamenei was killed successful 1 of the archetypal strikes, on with astir 40 different elder Iranian officials. Khamenei's movements had been tracked for months by the CIA, which learned astir a Saturday greeting gathering astatine a compound successful Tehran that Khamenei was expected to attend, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter. That quality was past passed connected to Israeli counterparts, the idiosyncratic told CBS News.

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Natanz atomic facility

The Natanz enrichment installation was 1 of 3 atomic sites that were antecedently targeted by abstracted Israeli and U.S. airstrikes successful June past year. It was unclear however overmuch those archetypal strikes damaged Iran's atomic program.

President Trump has claimed they "obliterated" the 3 atomic sites, and that Iran's atomic program had been acceptable backmost by "basically decades." Iran downplayed the strikes astatine the time, arguing they didn't destruct its technological capabilities.

"Yes, you destroyed the facilities, the machines, but the exertion cannot beryllium bombed, and the determination besides cannot beryllium bombed," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Fox News successful January.

Satellite images from precocious January showed roofs had been built implicit damaged buildings astatine Natanz and different sites, perchance indicating Iran was trying to salvage materials from the facilities.

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Choqa Balk-e drone facility

The Choqa Balk-e frone installation is located successful occidental Iran. The state is known to usage Shahed-136 "kamikaze" drones, a one-way drone that has a warhead built into it that detonates erstwhile it crashes into its target.