Name: Iran war: What satellite images reveal after week 1
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Imagery showing the extent of the damage to US military facilities across Gulf Arab countries is starting to emerge.

Part of Iran's furious response to an Israeli American campaign that decimated its leadership.

At least nine US military positions have been hit in less than 48 hours.

They're much nearer to Iran than its usual target, Israel.

That proximity may give Iran's missiles and drones a better chance of hitting their targets.

This is the port of Shraeba where just after nine on Sunday morning an Iranian strike set a makeshift US operations center at the civilian port ablaze.

Six American service members were killed in the attack.

You can see smoke rising from the fire, the blown out 3 wide trailer blackened on the inside.

In another attack, a drone, this appears to be the Arash two crashes into US positions in Camp Buhring, a building severely damaged.

American helicopters parked inside the base were nearly hit.

In Bahrain, a shahed attack drone flies into the base that hosts the U.S.

navy's Fifth Fleet, one of the largest American naval formations in the world.

The drone hits one satellite communication terminal clearly seen here.

But the scale of the damage is more here.

Warehouses and other buildings damaged and another satellite communication terminal destroyed.

We see this pattern of targeting throughout the region.

At least five satellite communication terminals were destroyed.

It points to a possible Iranian effort to cut US bases off from the outside world.

Iran used an unprecedented barrage of missiles and drones.

U.S. patriot missiles and other multibillion dollar air defense systems shot most of these out of the sky.

But the ones that got through were enough to puncture the veil of security around oil rich Gulf Arab states and the heart of America's security infrastructure in the Middle East.

We have obtained incredible new satellite imagery and this is really important.

It does show extensive damage at military bases across Iran, as you might expect, but

We're using these images to piece together how the United States managed to kill the country's Supreme Leader and so many around him that they, they, you know, after they thought dark was light, darkness was done.

They're going to have this meeting and was taken out.

The US we understand had secretly been trailing him with intelligence for months.

Katie Polglaze is out front with this incredible report.

With Iran very much still under attack, we've been using videos and satellite images like this one of the strike on the Supreme Leader's office to analyze how the senior leadership was dismantled by US and Israeli strikes and where exactly they've hit.

We now know from US And Israeli sources that the CIA, along with Israeli intelligence, had been tracking Iran's senior leadership for months.

Then came intelligence about a perfect opportunity to strike in broad daylight, when many of Iran's top officials would be in the same place at once.

The leadership house and the hub of Iran's power.

It's also the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, now confirmed dead.

It's in a very old traditional Tehran neighborhood surrounded by government offices, scientific institutions and museums.

Khomeini was known to not leave this compound much.

He was seen here in this video just last week addressing crowds at a mosque.

The Israelis say they hit three sites on the compound simultaneously.

We found several locations that have damage.

You can see a central building completely flattened.

This one appeared to have been targeting an underground structure, according to a former U.S.

special Operations Tactical Advisor, Wes Bryant.

Over here, you can see crowds and emergency and construction vehicles.

The Intelligence Ministry headquarters was also up in smoke yesterday.

And then there's this strike right outside the house of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

He has today been reported dead by some Iranian outlets.

CNN has not been able to confirm his death.

Ali Shamhani, a senior advisor to the Supreme Leader, has also been reported dead by the Iranian authorities.

He narrowly escaped death last June when Israel struck his home in this precise targeting of a top floor apartment.

Almost miraculously, he emerged from the rubble days later.

The Iranian Foreign Minister here, Abbas Arakshi, was away in Geneva this week.

The Oman Foreign Ministry posted this picture of him meeting his counterpart just four days ago.

That trip may have saved his life, but Iran is very much still under attack.

This IDF footage from Sunday morning shows a strike on the headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the notoriously brutal elite wing of Iran's military.

What happens next remains to be seen, but Iran is aggressively fighting back, striking multiple U.S.

allies across the Middle east, including the United Arab Emirates.

Fires visible here over Dubai's port area alongside Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

All right, I want to go to retired Army Major General Spider Marks now out front, head of the Geopolitical Intelligence at Academy Securities.

And you know, when you look at Katie's reporting, I'm just.

And to look at that Khamenei rarely left the compound where he was ultimately killed.

Okay, so in a sense, as she reports, that was common knowledge.

But the reason that they did this, when they did it, we understand, is because all of the senior leadership came in here.

I mean, there was probably no bigger, you know, one strike to take out all that could have existed than this one.

And they, it should have been pretty obvious that such a thing could have happened.

I guess in retrospect, I mean, what do you think, Spider?

Was there any sign that this was coming to the Iranians?

They obviously did not think they had been penetrated.

I think it's a combination, really speculation on my part, but

I think it's a combination of hubris on their part and the notion that they had been in negotiations with the administration over the course of several weeks and reports at the end of last week indicated that progress had been made.

In other words, they probably understood that they were now negotiating their themselves into a position where there might be a delay on the part of the administration, that they were favorably aligned in some particular areas.

It's absolutely baffling that they would do that.

But also you have to understand that someone who doesn't leave the compound for weeks on end probably is not surprising.

We saw that with Osama Bin Laden, although he never left that thing for the longest time, but

he also isolated himself and he kept it very clear that his support network was as probably well trained as they could be to obfuscate their kind of connectivity.

In this case, bringing 40 plus leaders to see the boss, very bad idea.

But again, I think it's probably those two factors that probably played into it.

They probably thought they had more time and technical talks were going to take place in Vienna on Monday.

Obviously those are off the table, of course.

CNN is among news outlets reporting it may have been a strike from the United States that hit an elementary school in southern Iran, killing some 168 grade school students and 14 teachers.

CNN's Isabel Young has an early CNN analysis.

Nearly a week after a strike killed scores of students in Iran's Minab, it seems more and more likely that the US Was responsible.

A new satellite image shows an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base and an elementary school in southern Iran.

Here you see craters in several of the buildings, including the school.