Satellite Images Show Israeli Damage at Key Iran Missile Base
Satellite images revealed damage to Iran's Tabriz missile base resulting from Israel's attacks as the Islamic Republic fires barrages at Israel in reprisal for attacks on its military establishment and nuclear program.
Newsweek has reached out to Iran's Foreign Ministry for comment.
Iran is reliant on its missile program as a way to counterattack given its outtdated air force.
The Tabriz missile base is one of Iran's key ballistic missile facilities, located near Tabriz in northwest Iran. Iran's ballistic missiles are typically housed in deeply buried underground silos dispersed across various locations nationwide.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday that it had destroyed about a third of Iran's ballistic missile launchers. Israeli strikes have also damaged parts of the Kermanshah missile site.
Missile attacks from Iran have sounded siren alarms across Israel for days and sent civilians running to shelters. Nearly 21 people were killed and over 600 injured in Israel since Friday, according to Haaretz.
An Iranian ballistic missile struck a building in central Israel on Monday, breaching a reinforced shelter and killing four people in an incident that has raised public alarm over the failure of bunkers to withstand heavy missile strikes, Euro News and the BBC reported.
While most missiles had been intercepted by Israel's anti missile defenses when Iran began launching on Friday, some missiles have struck residential buildings and apartment blocks, including high-rises and family homes, in cities such as Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, Haifa, Ramat Gan, Rishon LeZion, and Petah Tikva, according to multiple news outlets. Four people were killed in a missile attack on Haifa on Saturday, the Times of Israel and other media reported.
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) ballistic missiles had been used to targeted Tel Aviv and Haifa, but on Monday Israeli power plants and oil refineries had been targeted using 'Fattah' hypersonic ballistic missiles, according to Tasnim News Agency.
Israel Defence Forces on June 16: "We can now say that 1/3 of the Iranian regime's missile launchers have been dismantled."
Adi Shindler, a 71-year-old Jerusalem resident told Reuters: "It's very sad. And we don't want to lose any people. But what can you do. We don't have a choice. It's better this way than to have missiles come at us, nuclear missiles. And then we're all dead."
Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on X: "Our powerful Armed Forces are making clear to the world that the war criminals hiding in shelters in Tel Aviv will not go unpunished for their crimes. We will continue to pummel the cowards for as long as needed to make sure that they are no longer firing at our people."
Iran is likely to continue firing missiles at Israel and has threatened harsher escalation in a warning to the United States. Israel will continue its attacks on Iran, both to stop its current retaliation and to further damage its military command and nuclear infrastructure.
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