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A wave of American and Israeli airstrikes has according to analysis eliminated or harmed no fewer than eleven Iranian naval vessels since the weekend, freshly analyzed aerial photos show, with launch facilities and atomic facilities also being targeted.

Pictures of the southern Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas installation, which overlooks the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the headquarters of the Iran's naval force, show black smoke pouring from a number of warships on Monday and Tuesday.

Naval Assets Incurred Major Losses

Included in the vessels destroyed was the IRINS Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had been used as a drone carrier. Satellite images indicated black smoke rising from the vessel which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas base.

Intelligence evaluations state that at least a quintet of warships at the port were "damaged or eliminated". Imagery of the southern end of the harbor depict smoke emanating from the Makran, while two other vessels appear to be damaged, with a single one visibly ablaze.

Over at the Konarak base, photos reveal multiple harmed vessels, with intelligence reports identifying impacts on six vessels. Pictures from Monday also show that several buildings at the installation have been leveled.

"For many years the Tehran government has disrupted global maritime traffic," a senior US military official declared. "Now, there is no vessel from Iran at sea in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Sea of Oman, and we will not stop."

Some ships reportedly sunk may have been hidden in satellite images by weather conditions or battle damage, or struck at sea, and have not been independently verified. Other accounts stated that one Iranian ship was going down off the coast of Sri Lankan waters, leading to a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Bases and Nuclear Locations Hit

Neutralizing Iran's rocket sites and the stopping enrichment activities were listed as further aims of the air campaign. Satellite images also depicted strikes on the southerly Khorgu and north-western Tabriz missile bases, and at the Konarak base, where weapons bunkers and bunkers were targeted.

At the Choqa Balk-e unmanned aircraft site west of the city of Kermanshah, extensive destruction was observed to warehouses, bunkers and UAV launching apparatus.

Destruction was also observed at a surveillance station at the Zahedan airbase in eastern parts of the country, close to the frontier with neighboring nations.

Significantly, the latest wave of attacks have apparently hit installations at the Natanz complex – widely believed to be at the heart of the country's nuclear programme. An international watchdog stated that the affected buildings were used for entry to the facility's underground enrichment facility and that "no release of radioactive material" was anticipated.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Observers suggested that the attacks appeared to have "significantly degraded" the Iran's naval capability to carry out conventional attacks using its biggest warships. But, it was stressed that Iran maintains the ability to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, midget subs and its so-called "ghost fleet" of tankers.

The full scale of the damage caused to Iran's defense infrastructure remains unclear, with strikes said to be continuing. Imagery also indicates considerable damage to the command center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran.

Numerous of civilian buildings also appear to have been damaged in the capital and throughout Iran since the conflict escalated. Reports of deaths from inside Iran indicate that hundreds of non-combatants may have been lost their lives in the attacks.

With the conflict ongoing, monitoring of aerial photographs will continue to document the unfolding battlefield picture.