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’s President Says Tehran Open to Dialogue with US, Accuses Israel of Assassination Attempt

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a meeting in Ilam, Iran, June 12, 2025. Iran's Presidential website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuter
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a meeting in Ilam, Iran, June 12, 2025. Iran's Presidential website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuter
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Iran’s President Says Tehran Open to Dialogue with US, Accuses Israel of Assassination Attempt

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a meeting in Ilam, Iran, June 12, 2025. Iran's Presidential website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuter
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a meeting in Ilam, Iran, June 12, 2025. Iran's Presidential website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuter

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said he believes Iran can resolve its differences with the United States through dialogue, but trust would be an issue after US and Israeli attacks on his country, according to an interview released on Monday.

"I am of the belief that we could very much easily resolve our differences and conflicts with the United States through dialogue and talks," Pezeshkian told conservative US podcaster Tucker Carlson in an interview conducted on Saturday.

The Iranian leader urged US President Donald Trump not to be drawn into war with Iran by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is visiting Washington on Monday for talks at the White House.

"The United States' president, Mr. Trump, he is capable enough to guide the region towards the peace and a brighter future and put Israel in its place. Or get into a pit, an endless pit, or a swamp," Pezeshkian said. "So it is up to the United States president to choose which path."

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said she was not sure if Trump had seen the Iranian president's comments, but agreed he was the right man to move the region towards peace.

Pezeshkian blamed Israel, Iran's arch-enemy, for the collapse of talks that were in place when Israel began its strikes on Iran on June 13, starting a 12-day air war with Israel in which top Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists were killed.

"How are we going to trust the United States again?" Pezeshkian said. "How can we know for sure that in the middle of the talks the Israeli regime will not be given the permission again to attack us?"

Pezeshkian also said that Israel tried to assassinate him.

"They did try, yes," he said. "They acted accordingly, but they failed."

Israel did not immediately respond to the allegation. A senior Israeli military official said last month that Israel killed more than 30 senior security officials and 11 senior nuclear scientists in its attack on to Iran's nuclear sites.

Trump said he expected to discuss Iran and its nuclear ambitions with Netanyahu, praising the US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as a tremendous success. On Friday, he told reporters that he believed Tehran's nuclear program had been set back permanently, although Iran could restart efforts elsewhere.

Iran has always denied seeking a nuclear weapon.