IRAN CRIPPLED: New Satellite Images Reveal Devastating Damage Inside Tehran

Fresh satellite images are offering a stark aerial look at how hard Iran has been hit, showing damaged military facilities, burning ships and smoke rising over Tehran after days of U.S.-Israeli strikes and the regime’s retaliation across the region.

Imagery from Planet Labs captured damage at the Konarak base in southern Iran, including burning vessels and battered facilities. The same set of images shows significant destruction at Iran’s naval headquarters in Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf, underscoring that the campaign is not just targeting launch sites. It is ripping into Iran’s military backbone.

Separate satellite imagery from Vantor shows additional damage in the Persian Gulf at Iran’s Bushehr port, including impacts on facilities and vessels. At Bushehr air base, satellite photos show a bunker hit by a strike, leaving a large crater and destroying several nearby small buildings.

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The strikes also reached deep inland. Satellite photos show damage at the Choqa Balk drone facility in western Iran, another node in the regime’s drone pipeline. Radar systems at Zahedan air base in eastern Iran, near the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, were also struck. The distance between the sites, roughly 800 to 900 miles apart, highlights the reach of the coordinated attacks.

More imagery reveals damage to aircraft on the tarmac at Shiraz air base, with scorch marks and debris visible around several parking areas. The images show a pattern repeated across the country: air defenses and aviation assets degraded, drone infrastructure hit and command-and-support sites smashed.

Above Tehran, Planet Labs imagery shows thick smoke plumes rising from inside the capital. The smoke signals explosions and fires in Iran’s political center and reinforces a reality Tehran cannot spin away. The conflict is no longer confined to isolated military outposts. It has reached the regime’s core.

Iran has responded with its own missile and drone attacks, widening the fight across the region. Satellite images show damage in the port city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, and strikes also targeted Jebel Ali Port, the region’s largest maritime hub. That retaliation illustrates how Tehran is trying to spread pain beyond military targets and into key infrastructure.

The latest satellite imagery follows the U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several top regime figures, triggering a succession crisis and intensifying the scramble for control inside Tehran.

President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that Iran’s new leader is “not going to last long” without U.S. approval as Operation Epic Fury pushes deeper into its third week.

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