Satellite imagery appears to show damage from Israeli strike at 2 Iranian military facilities
Satellite imagery taken before and after Israel's retaliatory attack on Iran Friday appeared to show two Iranian military facilities outside Tehran with visible damage to several buildings.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack targeted military targets and "achieved all its goals."
The Associated Press obtained satellite imagery from Planet Lab showing Iran's Parchin military base on Sept. 9, 2024, and after Friday's strike. Israel also hit Khojir, a sprawling missile production site near Tehran.
In assessments of the damage based on the satellite imagery, David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst for the Washington think tank CNA, told Reuters that the strike hit a building at Parchin that was part of Iran's defunct nuclear weapons development program, and another building used to mix solid fuel for missiles.
Eveleth told Reuters that the facility targeted at Khojir was a missile production plant which Reuters reported had recently undergone a massive expansion.
Eveleth said the Israeli strike may have "significantly hampered Iran's ability to mass produce missiles."
-ABC News' Victoria Beaule