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Multiple joint airstrikes has allegedly destroyed or damaged at least eleven warships belonging to Iran since the weekend, freshly analyzed orbital imagery demonstrate, with launch facilities and nuclear sites also being targeted.

Pictures of the southerly Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas port installation, which sits on the strategic Hormuz Strait and is home to the headquarters of the Iranian navy, show black smoke pouring from multiple ships on the start of the week.

Naval Assets Incurred Substantial Losses

Included in the vessels destroyed was the Makran, Iran's biggest warship which had served as a drone carrier. Aerial imagery showed thick smoke pouring from the ship which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Analytical assessments indicate that at least five vessels at Bandar Abbas were "damaged or eliminated". Imagery of the southern end of the port depict plumes ascending from the IRINS Makran, while another pair of vessels seem to be impacted, with one of them seen burning.

Over at Konarak, images show several stricken ships, with analysis identifying impacts on six vessels. Photos taken on the start of the week also indicate that multiple facilities at the base have been demolished.

"For a long time the Tehran government has disrupted commercial vessels," an American commander declared. "At present, there is not one Iranian ship operational in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Sea of Oman, and we will persist."

Some vessels allegedly destroyed may have been concealed in aerial photos by haze or plumes, or struck at sea, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Other accounts stated that an Iranian vessel was foundering off the coast of Sri Lanka's territorial waters, leading to a search and rescue mission.

Missile Installations and Nuclear Locations Hit

Eliminating Iranian missile bases and the hindering of atomic bomb programs were listed as other goals of the offensive. Satellite images also depicted impacts against the southern Khorgu base and northwestern Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak base, where missile storage facilities and fortifications were targeted.

At the Choqa Balk-e drone drone base west of Kermanshah, extensive damage was seen to storage buildings, bunkers and drone launch equipment.

Impact was also noted at a radar site at the Zahedan airbase military airport in eastern Iran, near the border with neighboring nations.

Perhaps most notably, the new round of attacks have apparently focused on sites at Natanz – long said to be at the core of the country's enrichment efforts. An international watchdog commented that the affected structures were used for access to the site's below-ground enrichment facility and that "no radiological consequence" was anticipated.

Broader Fallout and Analysis

Defense experts stated that the offensive appeared to have "greatly reduced" the Iran's naval capability to sustain standard operations using its most significant warships. But, it was emphasised that Tehran maintains the option to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, midget subs and its so-called "shadow fleet" of tankers.

The total scale of the destruction caused to Iranian military infrastructure remains unclear, with strikes said to be continuing. Pictures also shows widespread destruction to the command center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of Tehran.

Numerous of public facilities also seem to have been struck in the capital city and throughout Iran since the conflict started. Reports of deaths from local officials suggest that many hundreds of civilians may have been fatally injured in the strikes.

Amid continuing hostilities, monitoring of aerial photographs will persist to assess the evolving military landscape.