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Multiple American and Israeli attacks has according to analysis destroyed or damaged a minimum of eleven Iran's navy ships since Saturday, freshly analyzed orbital imagery demonstrate, with rocket sites and enrichment plants also being targeted.

Photographs of the southerly Konarak naval military port and the Bandar Abbas facility, which is located on the Strait of Hormuz and is home to the headquarters of the Iranian navy, reveal smoke billowing from multiple vessels on Monday and Tuesday.

Naval Assets Sustained Substantial Losses

Included in the ships sunk was the Makran, the country's most sizable ship which had been used as a unmanned aerial vehicle platform. Aerial imagery showed thick smoke rising from the vessel which had been moored at the Bandar Abbas naval base.

Analytical assessments suggest that at least five vessels at the port were "struck or destroyed". Photos of the southern part of the harbor reveal smoke emanating from the IRINS Makran, while additional vessels are visibly damaged, with a single one clearly on fire.

Over at the Konarak base, photos reveal multiple harmed ships, with expert review identifying damage to six ships. Photos taken on Monday also show that multiple structures at the installation have been demolished.

"For a long time the Iranian regime has harassed commercial vessels," the head of US Central Command declared. "At present, there is not one vessel from Iran underway in the Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait or Sea of Oman, and we will persist."

Some ships allegedly destroyed may have been concealed in aerial photos by weather conditions or battle damage, or struck at sea, and have yet to be fully confirmed. Additional information indicated that a ship from Iran was going down off the coast of Sri Lankan waters, prompting a search and rescue mission.

Rocket Bases and Atomic Locations Targeted

Eliminating Iran's rocket sites and the stopping nuclear weapons development were declared as other objectives of the military strikes. Satellite images also depicted strikes on the southern Khorgu and northwestern Tabriz missile missile bases, and at the Konarak air base, where missile storage facilities and bunkers were struck.

At the Choqa Balk-e drone base to the west of Kermanshah, extensive destruction was seen to storage buildings, underground facilities and UAV launching apparatus.

Impact was also observed at a surveillance station at the Zahedan airbase in eastern Iran, near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Perhaps most notably, the latest wave of strikes have reportedly targeted installations at Natanz – widely believed to be at the core of Iran's enrichment efforts. An international watchdog stated that the damaged buildings were used for entry to the facility's below-ground enrichment facility and that "no radiological consequence" was expected.

Wider Fallout and Assessment

Defense experts suggested that the attacks appeared to have "largely neutralized" the Iran's naval capability to sustain standard operations using its largest warships. Nevertheless, it was stressed that Iran retains the ability to launch irregular strikes at sea through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, midget subs and its so-called "clandestine network" of tankers.

The full scope of the destruction caused to Iranian military infrastructure is still uncertain, with attacks reportedly persisting. Pictures also indicates extensive damage to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran.

A significant number of civilian buildings also are reported to have been struck in the capital and throughout Iran since the conflict started. Reports of deaths from inside Iran state that hundreds of civilians may have been killed in the attacks.

As the situation develops, review of satellite imagery will continue to document the changing military landscape.