More than 50 Iranian military bases damaged in US strikes since start of war, satellite images show

More than 50 Iranian subject bases, including the office of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), person been damaged by US-Israeli attacks since the warfare began, outer images show.

Bases crossed the state person been heavy damaged by US strikes, the images reviewed by BBC Verify show, with experts identifying harm to aerial unit jets, warships and ballistic rocket facilities.

US officials accidental they person deed much than 13,000 targets crossed Iran since the struggle began connected 28 February.

On Tuesday and Wednesday night, US and Iranian forces exchanged caller waves of strikes pursuing the downing of a US chopper successful the Gulf. Over the weekend, Iran and Israel besides traded attacks, with Israel striking confederate Beirut arsenic good arsenic subject sites successful the Islamic Republic.

While a impermanent ceasefire has been successful spot for much than a month, President Donald Trump claimed precocious past period that the US has "defeated them [Iran] militarily".

"Their navy is wholly gone - 100 per cent" helium told his daughter-in-law and Fox News presenter, Lara Trump. "The aerial unit is wholly gone - 100 per cent."

But contempt the attacks seen to Iran's bases crossed the country, immoderate of the images reviewed by BBC Verify look to amusement that Tehran has been utilizing the fragile ceasefire to behaviour repairs to passageway entrances astatine immoderate cardinal rocket sites.

Throughout the struggle it has been hard to find the standard of harm to Iranian subject bases arsenic the US has sought to bounds outer sum of the region. The Pentagon asked Planet, a large provider, to restrict caller images of Iran and astir of the Middle East successful March. The institution justified the move, saying that it wanted to guarantee its images were not utilized "by adversarial actors to people allied and Nato-partner unit and civilians".

However, BBC Verify utilized older Planet images and alternate planetary providers to grounds harm astatine 51 subject sites crossed Iran, including aerial bases, naval facilities and IRGC compounds.

The investigation is simply a apt lone a partial appraisal owed to the secretive quality of galore Iranian facilities. The backstage quality institution Janes estimated that determination are a full of 197 subject and IRGC bases successful Iran.

Satellite images amusement that runways and craft person been deed astatine much than a twelve locations, which experts accidental has helped to springiness the US implicit power implicit Iranian airspace.

At Mehrabad International Airport strikes connected 7 March destroyed astatine slightest 17 craft successful the subject conception of the facility, portion astatine Shiraz Airbase US-Israeli attacks betwixt 2-17 April deed astatine slightest 13 planes.

Strikes person besides targeted Iran's fleet of warships. Multiple vessels and buildings were damaged during attacks connected the Bandar Abbas Naval Base - the office of the navy - successful the opening days of the war.

Satellite images showed fume billowing from a damaged vessel and the administrative conception of the larboard connected 4 March, portion aggregate ships were besides heavy damaged astatine Konarak naval base.

Meanwhile, outer images look to amusement extended harm to the IRGC's naval office and its wide office successful the eastbound suburbs of Tehran. The naval force's commander, Gen Alireza Tangsiri, was also killed successful an Israeli operation successful precocious March.

Experts told BBC Verify that contempt the utmost blows suffered by Iran's navy and aerial unit successful these repeated attacks, Tehran inactive has the capableness to harm the US and its determination allies.

"Iran's quality to support itself stems little from its accepted forces, specified arsenic its aerial force, than from its capableness to behaviour counterstrikes via missiles oregon drones," said Zev Faintuch from the information steadfast Global Guardian.

Raphael Cohen, Director of the National Security Program astatine the RAND School of Public Policy, said that Iran's "mosquito fleet" of small, accelerated vessels volition let it to proceed to airs a menace to US forces and commercialized shipping successful the Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran besides appears to beryllium utilizing the fragile ceasefire to behaviour repairs to astatine slightest 4 of its ballistic rocket bases, outer images show.

Photos look to amusement that roads person been cleared of debris astatine Tabriz rocket base. Tunnels which were damaged by US-Israeli strikes look to person been excavated and what look similar operation vehicles and dense machinery are disposable successful the images.

But Kamran Bokhari, elder chap astatine the Middle East Policy Council, said Iran's economical struggles, which predate the war, could hamper efforts to afloat rebuild subject capability.

"Iran volition beryllium constrained by the magnitude of resources that they tin deploy to rebuilding, due to the fact that they volition besides person to code basal economical conditions."

In summation to subject bases, galore civilian buildings person been deed crossed the country. According to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), much than 1,700 civilians person been killed since the struggle began. However, Adm Brad Cooper - the US subject serviceman overseeing the warfare - has challenged the proposition that determination person been thousands of civilian deaths.

US attacks besides targeted interior information forces loyal to the clerical government, inclusing the IRGC compounds and bases belonging to the Basij paramilitary - a unpaid unit controlled by the IRGC and often deployed connected the streets to suppress dissent.

Satellite images amusement that its bid centre successful Tehran was damaged by a onslaught astir 4 March, with an adjacent gathering wholly levelled by the attack.

At the outset of the war, President Trump hinted that 1 of his goals was to alteration anti-government protesters to overthrow the clerical authorities - though this has since been downplayed.

"These attacks were truthful astir surely chiefly aimed astatine expanding the likelihood of bringing astir the conditions for authorities overthrow which was an Israeli, and to a lesser extent, US goal," Lewis Smart, a main expert with Janes said.

"Such a determination would beryllium indispensable to assistance assistance immoderate authorities overthrow from beneath and comes disconnected the backmost of the December 2025 - January 2026 protests and riots that were brutally suppressed by Iran's interior information forces."

Additional reporting by Barbara Metzler.