Live updates: US strikes Iranian nuclear sites as Iran-Israel conflict continues

Iran’s largest nuclear complex was dealt a series of severe blows in US strikes, a CNN analysis of satellite imagery found.

At least 18 destroyed or partially destroyed structures can be seen in the images, provided by Maxar Technologies, of the Isfahan facility in central Iran.

The site, which according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative is “suspected of being the center” of Iran’s nuclear program, was visibly blackened by the degree of rubble the strikes left in their wake.

At a Pentagon news conference Sunday, Gen. Dan Caine, the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a US submarine launched more than a dozen low-flying Tomahawk cruise missiles “against key surface infrastructure targets” at the facility.

Meanwhile, at Iran’s Natanz enrichment site, two new craters were visible, likely caused by massive “bunker buster” bombs, which are designed to penetrate to deep underground targets before detonating. The craters — one approximately 5.5 meters in diameter and the other approximately 3.2 meters, according to analysis by Maxar — sit directly above parts of the complex located underground.

The site’s underground structures house centrifuges, which are used for turning uranium into nuclear fuel.

A US official confirmed US forces had dropped two bunker-busting bombs on Natanz, while US Navy submarines fired Tomahawk cruise missiles. The extent of the underground damage at the site is unclear at this time.

The imagery of the destruction at the two sites comes after a CNN analysis of satellite imagery found US airstrikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility had left behind at least six large craters, also pointing to the use of bunker-busting bombs.