Satellite Photos Reveal Damage to Iranian Missile Bases and Nuclear Facilities After Israeli Strikes

This handout satellite image taken on June 16, 2025 and released by Planet Labs on June 17 shows the Tabriz north missile base underground facility entrance in Tabriz after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes. (Handout / 2025 Planet Labs PBC / AFP)
This handout satellite image taken on June 16, 2025 and released by Planet Labs on June 17 shows the Tabriz north missile base underground facility entrance in Tabriz after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes. (Handout / 2025 Planet Labs PBC / AFP)
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Satellite Photos Reveal Damage to Iranian Missile Bases and Nuclear Facilities After Israeli Strikes

This handout satellite image taken on June 16, 2025 and released by Planet Labs on June 17 shows the Tabriz north missile base underground facility entrance in Tabriz after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes. (Handout / 2025 Planet Labs PBC / AFP)
This handout satellite image taken on June 16, 2025 and released by Planet Labs on June 17 shows the Tabriz north missile base underground facility entrance in Tabriz after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes. (Handout / 2025 Planet Labs PBC / AFP)

Satellite images analyzed Saturday by The Associated Press revealed some of the damage sustained by Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and nuclear facilities in the blistering Israeli attack on the country.

Images from Planet Labs PBC taken Friday showed damage at two missile bases, one in Kermanshah and one in Tabriz, both in western Iran.

At Kermanshah, where the base is up against a mountainside, burns could be seen across a wide area after the attack. In Tabriz, images showed damage at multiple sites on the base.

At the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, southwest of Tehran, the images show multiple buildings either damaged or destroyed, including structures experts say supply power to the facility. The Natanz images were taken on Friday and Saturday by Maxar Technologies.

Natanz’s enrichment plant, where Iran enriched uranium to 60% purity, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%, was also destroyed.

All the Natanz facilities damaged in the strikes are above ground and it doesn’t appear from the images that underground enrichment halls had any apparent damage.

Iran has not acknowledged the damage, though it reported on Israeli strikes in the area.



Iran Says It Warned US Destroyer to Move Away from Waters Monitored by Tehran

In this June 1, 2017 photo, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, foreground, (DDG 62) makes its way with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, through the Sea of Japan. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelsey L. Adams/US Navy via AP)
In this June 1, 2017 photo, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, foreground, (DDG 62) makes its way with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, through the Sea of Japan. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelsey L. Adams/US Navy via AP)
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Iran Says It Warned US Destroyer to Move Away from Waters Monitored by Tehran

In this June 1, 2017 photo, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, foreground, (DDG 62) makes its way with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, through the Sea of Japan. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelsey L. Adams/US Navy via AP)
In this June 1, 2017 photo, the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, foreground, (DDG 62) makes its way with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, through the Sea of Japan. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelsey L. Adams/US Navy via AP)

Iran warned a US destroyer on Wednesday to change course after it approached waters being monitored by the country, leading the US ship to turn away, Iranian state media reported.

The US Navy and U.S. Central Command, which overseas US forces in the Middle East, had no immediate comment on the report.

The reported incident follows US strikes last month on Iranian nuclear facilities that Washington says were part of a program geared towards developing nuclear weapons. Tehran maintains that its nuclear program is for purely civilian purposes.

"US destroyer 'Fitzgerald' attempted to approach waters under Iran's monitoring in a provocative move", Iranian state TV said, adding that a Navy helicopter quickly approached the destroyer and issued a stern warning to leave the area.

The US destroyer threatened the Iranian helicopter, but moved out of the area upon continued warning, state TV said.

Iranian state media identified the vessel in question as "DDG Fitzgerald", adding the Iranian Army contacted the vessel asserting the helicopter was under its protection and asking the ship to change it direction to the south.