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BBC News
5 days ago
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BBC Verify Live: What satellite images tell us about damage in Iran
Update: Date: 10:34 BST Title: How we're tracking developments in Iran-Israel conflict Content: Emma PengellyBBC Verify journalist Iranians wave national flags during a demonstration in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday As we've been reporting, overnight on Saturday the US confirmed it had bombed three nuclear sites in Iran in an operation that it says was months in the planning. Among the key outstanding questions are: We'll be monitoring user-generated content appearing on social media and satellite imagery for further developments. After the US attack, Israel and Iran continued to exchange fire on Sunday. In Yazd, central Iran, we verified a video of large explosions. According to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Tasnim news agency, nine people were killed in the attack. The amount of footage coming out of Iran remains relatively sparse. BBC journalists are unable to report from inside Iran due to restrictions by the country's government, making it difficult to assess the damage. Also, with internet monitoring organisation Netblocks continuing to report, external an 'internet shutdown' in the country, access to social media videos and images has been very limited. Update: Date: 10:08 BST Title: ICYMI: Satellite images of Iran show craters at Fordo after US bombing Content: Benedict GarmanBBC Verify senior journalist Satellite imagery that we looked at on Sunday shows the aftermath of US strikes on Iran's underground nuclear enrichment facility at Fordo. High-resolution images from Maxar Technologies taken 22 June show six craters - likely the entry points for US munitions - as well as grey dust and debris scattered down the mountainside caused by the strikes. We previously wrote about the type of "bunker buster" munitions required for a strike on a deep underground facility like this: a bomb called a Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). On Sunday, the Pentagon confirmed they were used as part of its operation. Senior imagery analyst at McKenzie Intelligence Services, Stu Ray, told BBC Verify: "You will not see a huge blast effect at the entry point as it is not designed to detonate on entry but deeper down into the facility." He added that it looks like three separate munitions were dropped on two separate impact points, and that the grey colouration on the ground appears to show concrete debris blown out by the explosions. Ray also said the tunnel entrances appear to have been blocked off. As there are no visible craters or impact points near them, he suggests this may have been an Iranian attempt to "mitigate against deliberate targeting of the entrances by aerial bombardment". It's uncertain how much damage the strikes have caused to the nuclear site itself. In the days leading up to the strike, Iran seem to have been taking actions to anticipate them, as we reported earlier. Update: Date: 09:56 BST Title: Monday at BBC Verify Content: Johanna ChisholmBBC Verify Live editor Good morning from the team in the BBC's newsroom in London. You join us more than 24 hours after it was confirmed that the US had carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. This coming more than a week after the conflict between Israel and Iran escalated. We spent Sunday analysing satellite images, which begin to show the damage from those US strikes - we'll bring you more of that in our next few posts. We're continuing to track developments in the Middle East today, as we try to get a clearer picture of how those strikes have impacted Iran's nuclear programme. Our fact-check team is also across the government's new 10-year industrial strategy - which could see energy bills slashed by up to 25% for more than 7,000 UK businesses - and is set to be unveiled later today.
Al Arabiya
5 days ago
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- Al Arabiya
Israeli strikes on Iran's Yazd kill 10 Revolutionary Guard Corps
At least 10 Revolutionary Guard reported killed in Israeli strikes on Iran's Yazd province, according to Tasnim news. Developing...
LBCI
6 days ago
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- LBCI
Israeli strikes in central Iran kill nine Revolutionary Guards
At least nine members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed Sunday in Israeli attacks on central Iran, local media reported, as fighting between the two foes continued. "Following the aggression of the barbaric Zionist regime and its mercenaries against two military centers in Yazd city, seven Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps personnel and two conscripts were martyred," the Tasnim news agency reported, quoting an IRGC statement. Others were injured in the attack, it added. The Fars news agency had earlier said Israeli strikes targeted two military sites in Yazd. AFP
Al Arabiya
6 days ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Netanyahu says Israel close to meeting its goals in Iran
Israel was very close to meeting its goals in Iran of removing the threats of ballistic missiles and the nuclear program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Speaking to Israeli reporters, he said: 'We won't pursue our actions beyond what is needed to achieve them, but we also won't finish too soon. When the objectives are achieved, then the operation is complete and the fighting will stop.' 'I have no doubt that this is a regime that wants to wipe us out, and that's why we embarked on this operation to eliminate the two concrete threats to our existence: the nuclear threat, the ballistic missile threat. We are moving step by step towards achieving these goals. We are very, very close to completing them,' he said. Earlier, The Israeli military said its fighter jets had struck 'dozens' of targets across Iran on Sunday, including a long-range missile site in Yazd in the center of the country for the first time. A statement said that 'approximately 30 IAF (air force) fighter jets struck dozens of military targets throughout Iran' – including 'the 'Imam Hussein' Strategic Missile Command Center in the Yazd area, where long-range Khorramshahr missiles were stored.' The statement also confirmed strikes on missile launchers in Bushehr province, where a 'massive explosion' was reported by Iranian media on Sunday, as well as in Ahwaz in the southwest and central Isfahan. Isfahan is home to a uranium conversion facility targeted by more than two dozen missiles fired from a US submarine in the Middle East overnight. Earlier Sunday, military spokesman Effie Defrin vowed there would be no let-up in Israel's offensive against Iran despite overnight US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites which President Donald Trump claimed had been 'obliterated.' 'We are continuing and are determined to achieve the objectives of the operation: eliminating the existential threat to the state of Israel, damaging Iran's nuclear program and destroying its missile systems,' Defrin said.
LBCI
6 days ago
- Politics
- LBCI
Israeli military says struck 'dozens' of sites in Iran on Sunday
The Israeli military said its fighter jets had struck "dozens" of targets across Iran on Sunday, including a long-range missile site in Yazd in the center of the country for the first time. A statement said that "approximately 30 IAF (air force) fighter jets struck dozens of military targets throughout Iran," including "the 'Imam Hussein' Strategic Missile Command Center in the Yazd area, where long-range Khorramshahr missiles were stored." AFP
