{"id":119040,"date":"2024-10-27T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T11:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119040"},"modified":"2024-10-27T18:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T11:43:46","slug":"satellite-images-show-damage-from-israeli-attack-at-secretive-iranian-military-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119040","title":{"rendered":"Satellite images show damage from Israeli attack at secretive Iranian military bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-iran-news-10-26-2024-9c9f366c71c508e6dd0ee74cff8400d2\">An Israeli attack on Iran<\/a><\/span> damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran\u2019s onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program, satellite photos analyzed Sunday by The Associated Press show. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the buildings damaged sat in <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-international-news-7c78e26462c244e485774b5fe95deab1\">Iran\u2019s Parchin military base<\/a><\/span>, where the International Atomic Energy Agency suspects Iran in the past conducted tests of high explosives that could trigger a nuclear weapon. Iran long has insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, though the IAEA, Western intelligence agencies and others say Tehran had an active weapons program up until 2003. <\/p>\n<p>The other damage could be seen at the nearby <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/8d2517ff364bb395f0385859f0fa9d0f\">Khojir military base<\/a><\/span>, which analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites. <\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s military has not acknowledged damage at either Khojir or Parchin from Israel\u2019s attack early Saturday, though it has said the assault killed four Iranian soldiers working in the country\u2019s air defense systems. <\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the Israeli military. <\/p>\n<p>However, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-iran-news-10-27-2024-b4bf551e7c7de2af29257f6d4cc74da2\">Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a><\/span> on Sunday told an audience that the Israeli attack \u201cshould not be exaggerated nor downplayed,\u201d while stopping short of calling for an immediate retaliatory strike. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu separately said Sunday that Israel\u2019s strikes \u201cseverely harmed\u201d Iran and that the barrage \u201cachieved all its goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Damage spread across three Iranian provinces<\/h2>\n<p>It remains unclear how many sites in total were targeted in the Israeli attack. There have been no images of damage so far released by Iran\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials have identified affected areas as being in Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran provinces. Burned fields could be seen in satellite images from Planet Labs PBC around Iran\u2019s Tange Bijar natural gas production site in Ilam province on Saturday, though it wasn\u2019t immediately clear if it was related to the attack. Ilam province sits on the Iran-Iraq border in western Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The most telling damage could be seen in Planet Labs images of Parchin, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of downtown Tehran near the Mamalu Dam. There, one structure appeared to be totally destroyed while others looked damaged in the attack. <\/p>\n<p>At Khojir, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) away from downtown Tehran, damage could be seen on at least two structures in satellite images.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts including Decker Eveleth at the Virginia-based think tank CNA, Joe Truzman at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former United Nations weapon inspector David Albright, as well as other open-source experts, first identified the damage to the bases. The locations of the two bases correspond to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/iran-tehran-2024-mideast-wars-iran-government-war-and-unrest-a8f7939c8dc149069f166c628eb62335\">videos obtained by the AP<\/a><\/span> showing Iranian air defense systems firing in the vicinity early Saturday. <\/p>\n<h2>Base linked to Iran\u2019s onetime nuclear weapons program<\/h2>\n<p>At Parchin, Albright\u2019s Institute for Science and International Security identified the destroyed building against a mountainside as \u201cTaleghan 2.\u201d It said an archive of Iranian nuclear data earlier seized by Israel identified the building as housing \u201ca smaller, elongated high explosive chamber and a flash X-ray system to examine small-scale high explosive tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch tests may have included high explosives compressing a core of natural uranium, simulating the initiation of a nuclear explosive,\u201d a 2018 report by the institute says. <\/p>\n<p>In a message posted to the social platform X early Sunday, the institute added: \u201cIt is not certain whether Iran used uranium at \u2018Taleghan 2,\u2019 but it is possible it studied the compression of natural uranium hemispheres, which would explain its hasty and secretive renovation efforts following the IAEA\u2019s request to access Parchin in 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what, if any, equipment would have been inside of the \u201cTaleghan 2&#8243; building early Saturday. There were no Israeli strikes on Iran\u2019s oil industry, nor its nuclear enrichment sites or <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-iran-europe-entertainment-business-6729095cdbc15443c6135142e2d755e3\">its nuclear power plant at Bushehr<\/a><\/span> during the assault. <\/p>\n<p>Rafael Mariano Grossi, who leads the IAEA, confirmed that on X, saying \u201cIran\u2019s nuclear facilities have not been impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInspectors are safe and continue their vital work,\u201d he added. \u201cI call for prudence and restraint from actions that could jeopardize the safety &amp; security of nuclear &amp; other radioactive materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Damage seen at facilities for Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program<\/h2>\n<p>Other buildings destroyed at Khojir and Parchin likely included a warehouse and other buildings where Iran used industrial mixers to create the solid fuel needed for its extensive ballistic missile arsenal, Eveleth said. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued immediately after the attack Saturday, the Israeli military said it targeted \u201cmissile manufacturing facilities used to produce the missiles that Iran fired at the state of Israel over the last year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Destroying such sites could greatly disrupt Iran\u2019s ability to manufacture new ballistic missiles to replenish its arsenal after the two attacks on Israel. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/1a91d52c042141e4b7c8e93e6a20040e\">Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard<\/a><\/span>, which oversees <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-ballistic-missiles-israel-retaliation-gaza-war-edccddf7a871b78cd5528e265e1e7317\">the country\u2019s ballistic missile program<\/a><\/span>, has been silent since Saturday\u2019s attack. <\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s overall ballistic missile arsenal, which includes shorter-range missiles unable to reach Israel, was estimated to be \u201cover 3,000\u201d by Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, then-commander of the U.S. military\u2019s Central Command, in testimony to the U.S. Senate in 2022. In the time since, Iran has fired hundreds of the missiles in a series of attacks. <\/p>\n<p>There have been no videos or photos posted to social media of missile parts or damage in civilian neighborhoods following the recent attack \u2014 suggesting that the Israeli strikes were far more accurate that Iran\u2019s ballistic missile barrages targeting Israel in <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/strait-of-hormuz-vessel-33fcffde2d867380e98c89403776a8ac\">April<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-news-10-01-2024-eb175dff6e46906caea8b9e43dfbd3da\">October<\/a><\/span>. Israel relied on aircraft-fired missiles during its attack. <\/p>\n<p>However, one factory appeared to have been hit in Shamsabad Industrial City, just south of Tehran near Imam Khomeini International Airport, the country\u2019s main gateway to the outside world. Online videos of the damaged building corresponded to an address for a firm known as TIECO, which advertises itself as building advanced machinery used in Iran\u2019s oil and gas industry. <\/p>\n<p>Officials at TIECO requested the AP write the company a letter before responding to questions. The firm did not immediately reply to a letter sent to it. <\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press writer Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-israel-attack-satellite-photos-gaza-lebanon-wars-0c6ee6a8544268612cb7d49727d8449d\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119040\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}