General Major Esmail Ghaani, a high -ranking commander in the Iranian revolutionary guards, died in a devastating series of Israeli strikes last week.
But this week Ghaani appeared alive and good and took part in a rally in the Central -Teheran to celebrate what Iran called his “victory” in the defense against Israeli attacks.
Ghaan’s resurrection is a sign of the still changing image, since Iran and Israel assess the damage to itself and each other from almost two weeks of violent rocket and drone conflicts.
It is clear that the costs for Iran were immense. His air defense remained in ruins, many of the top ranks of his military killed and his nuclear program at least through attacks, including US strikes.
However, the extent of this damage is already hot, while all military costs for Israel from the war were unclear, partly thanks to the strict censorship of military information within the country.
Iran claimed to have hit the headquarters of Israel Mossad Intelligence Agency in Glilot, the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces in Tel Aviv and other high-quality intelligence and energy goals. However, publicly available film material and satellite images mainly indicate Nahmis and civil damage.
Rakets, which may be aimed at an IDF technology park in Be’er Sheva on Friday, concerned, for example, a residential building nearby.
Israel claimed to have intercepted around 90 percent of the Iran -fired 550 incoming rockets. It did not report any aircraft losses because it had reduced a large part of the Iranian air defense system in the opening days of the war.
But Israel’s air defense, although they have progressed, were “not hermetic”, according to the Israeli defense forces. Around 28 people were killed in Israel and more than 1,400 were injured, the easiest. Thousands of houses and vehicles were damaged or destroyed.
For Iran, said Jim Lamson, a former CIA analyst in the James Martin Center for Non -Proliferation Studies, “Accuracy was a problem”. Iranian rockets showed ten metric precision in controlled tests, but their war performance remained short.
“For those who come through Israeli defense, we speak hundreds of meters,” he said and found similar problems with the rocket attacks of Iran last year.
On July 17, four Iranian rockets reported on the Mossad site, instead a building on the highway. It is not known whether the building is associated with intelligence. The Israeli authorities said that an empty bus depot was hit.
A rocket also met 300 m from the building known as Kirya, the central command of the Israel defense staff in Tel Aviv.
“It is more difficult to find out what you aim in Israel and meet in Israel when Israel in Iran stands out in Iran due to Israeli censorship and the lack of open source satellite images,” said Lamson.
A map with reported strikes on Israel shows a focus on Haifa, place of the main marine base of the country.
In Iran, Israeli air strikes were far more precise and devastating. The governor of Tehran reported that around 120 buildings were completely destroyed in the capital, many of them residential buildings, while around 500 other serious damage.
According to satellite images, several buildings at the Mehrabad International Airport and nearby Shahid Rajaee University were damaged or destroyed.
According to the Ministry of Health, around 627 Iranians were killed and 4,870 were injured.
In addition to core scientists, the strikes included targeted attacks by a number of high -ranking numbers in Tehran’s armed forces.
Air strikes killed high-ranking Iranian military officers, including the Major General Major Mohamad Bagheri, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, Hossein Salami, and Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Aerospace Armed Forces of the Revolutionary Grade.
In the middle of the conflict, Israel seemed to expand its target strategy and not only meet the nuclear and rocket infrastructure, but also the symbolic regime assets, including the central television station in Tehran. One of the most controversial strikes met the Evin prison during the visiting hours, in which political prisoners were housed.
Whether Israel and the United States have reached their main goal – the destruction of Iran to make nuclear weapons – remains in doubt.
A preliminaryity report In the attack by the US defense information authority, it said that it had been traced by less than six months. It suggested that the bombs do not collapse the underground enrichment halls, even though they were carried out close inputs and ventilation openings.
The Israel’s atomic energy commission claimed on Wednesday that the Iranian program was returned “many years” after “the devastating US strike against Ford destroyed the critical infrastructure of the location and did not make the enrichment system functional”.
Satellite images of the key WebsiteWhere a nuclear enrichment work is buried half a kilometer underground, tunnel entrances show that are apparently sealed with earth and holes that may be the entry points of the 30,000 pound precision of the United States. “Bunker -Buster”. Access roads also appear damaged.
The Iranian officials denied that core sites such as Ford and Natanz, which were affected by the United States, were critically damaged and claimed that they had long been evacuated.
The fate of more than 400 kg high -enriched uranium, which could be enriched further to produce several bombs when Iran is selected, is unknown.
Pictures of another targeted location in Isfahan show several damaged buildings. The country’s main nuclear research center is located on the site.
Mohammad Eslami, head of the Iranian Atom -energy Organization, swore on Tuesday to rebuild the nuclear infrastructure of Iran that Iran exists.
In Iran, air defending and ballistic rocket programs suffered severe damage. Lamson estimated that more than half of the ballistic rocket supplies were damaged in the western and central regions of Iran. An Israeli military officer said that at least 50 percent of Iranian ballistic rocket launchers had been removed.
“You will be able to rebuild, but with a few big headaches,” said Lamson.
According to satellite images and local reports, a large rocket memory and starting point near Kermanshah – a long -standing logistics center for the Iranian fate and Zolfagharr systems – was destroyed.
In Tabriz, air strikes met a drone production that was connected to the IRGC Aerospace Force and triggered secondary explosions and fires that burned for hours.
“It is clear that the Iranian air defense network has been severely deteriorated to the point that the Israeli Air Force can project tactical fighters and even medium height (drones) into Iranian airspace every day,” said Justin Bronk from the Royal United Services Institute in London.
“This will theoretically rebuild the Iranian efforts to rebuild both your air defense and your nuclear program for regular Israeli attacks.”
