Israel’s attack on Iran likely damaged a base run by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that builds ballistic missiles and launches rockets as part of its own space program.

An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran’s onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program.

The recent Israeli strike damaged Iran's Shahroud space and missile base according to satellite image analysis.

Iran’s Russian-made air-defense equipment stopped few if any of the missiles that Israel launched from 100 jet fighters.

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commercial satellite imagery showed that Israeli airstrikes hit buildings during an attack on Saturday that Iran used for mixing solid fuel for ballistic missiles,