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A series of US and Israeli attacks has reportedly eliminated or harmed no fewer than eleven Iranian naval vessels since the weekend, recently obtained orbital imagery show, with launch facilities and nuclear sites also being targeted.

Photographs of the southern Konarak military port and the Bandar Abbas port facility, which is located on the strategic Hormuz Strait and contains the headquarters of the Iran's naval force, depict plumes of smoke rising from several warships on recent days.

Naval Forces Incurred Significant Losses

Included in the ships sunk was the IRINS Makran, Iran's largest naval vessel which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Orbital photos displayed black smoke emanating from the vessel which had been docked at the Bandar Abbas base.

Intelligence evaluations indicate that no fewer than a quintet of warships at the port were "struck or destroyed". Photos of the southern part of the harbor depict plumes ascending from the Makran, while two other vessels are visibly harmed, with one of them visibly ablaze.

Over at Konarak, images reveal several stricken ships, with analysis pointing to impacts on six ships. Images taken on Monday also demonstrate that a number of structures at the installation have been destroyed.

"For decades the Iranian regime has threatened international shipping," a senior US military official stated. "Today, there is no Iranian ship underway in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Sea of Oman, and we will persist."

A number of vessels reportedly destroyed may have been obscured in aerial photos by haze or plumes, or targeted offshore, and have not been independently verified. Separate reports suggested that a ship from Iran was sinking near Sri Lankan territorial waters, resulting in a rescue operation.

Rocket Sites and Atomic Locations Attacked

Eliminating Iran's rocket sites and the prevention of enrichment activities were declared as further aims of the air campaign. Aerial imagery also depicted impacts against the southern Khorgu and north-western Tabriz missile facilities, and at the Konarak air base, where missile storage facilities and bunkers were targeted.

At the Choqa Balk-e UAV facility to the west of Kermanshah, extensive destruction was identified to sheds, bunkers and drone launch equipment.

Impact was also noted at a surveillance station at the Zahedan airbase airbase in eastern parts of the country, close to the frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Significantly, the latest wave of strikes have apparently hit facilities at the Natanz complex – long said to be at the center of the country's enrichment efforts. An international watchdog said that the damaged buildings were used for access to the site's below-ground enrichment facility and that "no nuclear fallout" was anticipated.

Broader Fallout and Analysis

Military analysts indicated that the offensive appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iranian navy's capability to sustain traditional warfare using its largest warships. But, it was stressed that Tehran still has the capacity to launch asymmetric warfare at sea through the use of drones, small submarines and its so-called "clandestine network" of tankers.

The full extent of the damage caused to Iran's defense infrastructure has yet to be fully assessed, with hostilities said to be persisting. Imagery also indicates considerable damage to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of Tehran.

A large number of non-military structures also appear to have been damaged in the capital and across Iran after the conflict began. Casualty figures from inside Iran suggest that many hundreds of civilians may have been lost their lives in the strikes.

With the conflict ongoing, analysis of satellite imagery will persist to assess the unfolding military landscape.