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Multiple joint strikes has reportedly eliminated or harmed at least 11 warships belonging to Iran starting Saturday, freshly analyzed satellite images demonstrate, with missile bases and nuclear sites also being targeted.

Photographs of the southern Konarak naval naval base and the Bandar Abbas installation, which sits on the strategic Hormuz Strait and houses the headquarters of the Iranian navy, show black smoke pouring from a number of vessels on Monday and Tuesday.

Naval Forces Sustained Substantial Losses

Among the vessels destroyed was the IRINS Makran, Iran's most sizable ship which had functioned as a drone carrier. Aerial imagery showed black smoke emanating from the vessel which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas base.

Intelligence assessments suggest that at least five vessels at Bandar Abbas were "struck or destroyed". Imagery of the southern end of the harbor reveal plumes ascending from the Makran, while two other vessels seem to be harmed, with one of them visibly ablaze.

At the Konarak base, images reveal numerous stricken vessels, with analysis pointing to impacts on six vessels. Pictures taken on the start of the week also show that a number of facilities at the base have been destroyed.

"For many years the Iran's leadership has threatened commercial vessels," a senior US military official said. "Today, there is not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Gulf of Oman, and we will continue."

Some ships reportedly sunk may have been concealed in satellite images by weather conditions or battle damage, or struck at sea, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Additional information indicated that one Iranian ship was going down off the coast of Sri Lanka's waters, prompting a rescue operation.

Missile Sites and Atomic Locations Attacked

Neutralizing Iran's rocket sites and the prevention of nuclear weapons development were listed as additional objectives of the air campaign. Satellite images also depicted damage at the southern Khorgu base and northwestern Tabriz facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where rocket warehouses and fortifications were hit.

At the Choqa Balk-e drone unmanned aircraft site to the west of Kermanshah, extensive damage was seen to warehouses, bunkers and drone launch equipment.

Impact was also observed at a radar installation at the Zahedan airbase airbase in eastern parts of the country, near the frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Perhaps most notably, the new round of attacks have apparently focused on facilities at Natanz – considered at the core of Iran's nuclear programme. The UN's atomic energy body stated that the damaged buildings were used for access to the site's below-ground enrichment facility and that "no release of radioactive material" was likely.

Wider Impact and Assessment

Observers stated that the strikes appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iran's naval capacity to conduct traditional warfare using its largest vessels. But, it was noted that Iran maintains the option to launch unconventional attacks at sea through the use of drones, midget subs and its so-called "shadow fleet" of oil ships.

The total scope of the damage caused to Iranian military infrastructure remains unclear, with strikes said to be persisting. Pictures also reveals extensive damage to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran.

A significant number of public facilities also seem to have been hit in the capital and throughout the country after the fighting escalated. Toll estimates from inside Iran indicate that many hundreds of non-combatants may have been fatally injured in the bombardment.

As the situation develops, monitoring of satellite imagery will carry on to document the evolving scope of damage.