Experts who reviewed the analysis said the damage at the sites suggested that the U.S. military had underestimated Iran’s targeting abilities, not adapted sufficiently to modern drone warfare and left some bases under-protected.

‘The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses,’ said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a retired Marine Corps colonel, who reviewed the Iranian images at our request. The Post previously revealed how Russia provided Iran with intelligence to target U.S. forces.

During the war, Iranian state-affiliated news agencies repeatedly shared their own satellite imagery of damage at U.S. bases.

The Post verified the authenticity of 109 of the those Iranian satellite images by comparing them with lower-resolution imagery from the European Union’s satellite system, Copernicus, as well as high-resolution images from Planet where available. No Iranian imagery was found to have been manipulated.’