The space center of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which produces ballistic missiles and launches space missiles, was damaged by Israeli shelling on October 26, The Associated Press reported.
"Planet Labs PBC high-resolution satellite images obtained and analyzed by the AP showed damage to the Shahroud Space Center in Semnan, about 370 km northeast of the Iranian capital, Tehran," it said. is in the publication. As the agency notes, the photos show the damage to the central building of the space center, several neighboring buildings and the hangar. Cars can be seen in the vicinity, with which specialists have probably arrived to assess the damage, "more cars than usual" are parked near the main gates.
"We can't 100 percent rule out the possibility that it's something else, but there's almost no doubt that this building was damaged by an Israeli attack," AP quoted Fabian Hinz, an expert on Iran and a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, as saying. On the night of October 26, Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on Iranian military facilities in response to Tehran's missile attacks on Israel on October 1. Hours after the attack, Israel announced that it had ended the strikes and achieved its goals. In Iran, it was reported that the provinces of Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran were hit, but the strikes were successfully repelled. As a result of the attack, 4 Iranian soldiers were killed.
The American platform Axios wrote that the Israeli strike allegedly paralyzed the production of Iranian ballistic missiles, as the mixers used to produce solid rocket fuel were damaged. According to IRNA, none of Iran's oil industry facilities were affected by the attack.
