Satellite images at a glance, is the truth all just guesswork? The smoke at Abbas Port was only released after Planet Labs captured it, making what happened afterward even harder to verify.

After the US and Israel launched a military strike against Iran, satellite imagery release was restricted, making it difficult to independently verify battle damage and infrastructure damage through commercial imagery.
Before the restrictions took effect, images from organizations like Planet Labs had already documented extensive destruction at the Abadan Naval Base in the Strait of Hormuz, with the Iranian Navy's "Makran" vessel directly hit and on fire, with smoke rising from the deck, and large-scale fires also occurring around key facilities of the base, indicating severe damage to the base's infrastructure.