Sebastian Vandermeersch
BBC

A large amount of disinformation is circulating online following Israel’s air strikes on Iran.

We’ve seen one video posted today which claims to show an Iranian drone, which was purportedly launched towards Israel, tangled in power cables.

However, using Google reverse image search, we were able to confirm the footage is not new. It has been online since February 2024, originates from Syria, and is unrelated to the current round of attacks.

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Notably, this is not the first time the video has been posted claiming to be new, external. It was previously circulated in April 2024, during an earlier escalation between Israel and Iran.

In addition, footage from May showing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon has been reposted today with, external a caption that misleadingly suggests it shows Iranian drones attacking Israel.

Emma Pengelly
BBC journalist

In the last few minutes I’ve verified a video which appears to show the aftermath of a new air strike near the Iranian capital, Tehran.

In the footage, which was filmed to the west of the city, there’s a smoke plume in the distance and the sun is in the west so we can tell it was captured in the evening.

A BBC colleague has translated the audio in the footage, the person filming says: “It’s 6:32, right now, this is Garmdareh… now I can hear explosions and you can see the smoke.” 18:32 local time would be 15:02 GMT/16:02 BST - so a little over an hour ago.

We’re continuing to monitor reports of further Israeli strikes on Iran.

Thomas Spencer
BBC researcher

Defence analysts Janes say Israel’s attack on Iran has damaged the country’s nuclear enrichment programme.

It says the Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) at the Natanz nuclear facility was hit in a “significant blow” to the country’s ability to enrich uranium. Nuclear weapons require uranium which has been enriched to 90% purity.

Earlier we verified footage that showed a large plume of smoke rising from the Natanz site following Israel’s air strikes.

As we reported earlier, radar satellite imagery from today seen by BBC shows clear signs of damage there.

Matt Murphy
BBC senior journalist

We reported earlier on BBC Live that the Iranian government has put in place “temporary restrictions” on internet connections in the country following the Israeli attacks.

Now, analysts at the internet monitoring group Netblocks have told us they have seen a steep decline in international internet traffic from Iran. The organisation said the restrictions have "particularly" affected the virtual service providers Iranians use to access websites outside the country.

But a Netblocks spokesperson said it is “not seeing a total internet blackout for the time being”.

As we wrote earlier - the outage could limit how much material we can gather from inside Iran to help report this story.

Image source, Netblocks

Paul Brown
BBC senior journalist

The first satellite imagery from Iran has arrived and shows clear signs of damage at the Natanz nuclear facility.

The image was captured by the US company Umbra Space using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), rather than more conventional methods. The result is a high resolution, black and white image of the earth’s surface.

The benefit of this technology is that it cuts through cloud cover, which can often obscure images captured by conventional satellites.

In one of the areas we can see at least four buildings have been damaged - we’ve marked those in the image above. We’re also consulting experts to understand what these structures may have been used for.

What is clear from the images is that these were highly precise strikes. Buildings not directly targeted appear to have sustained minimal or no damage.

Lucy Gilder
BBC journalist

Reacting to the Israeli strikes, US President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social , externalplatform earlier warning of more “brutal” attacks to come.

In the same post he said: “The United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it".

We’ve taken a closer look at the arms supplied to Israel by the US.

America had by far the largest share of the global arms market as of 2024, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s latest report, external , externalwhich was published in March this year. , external

It says the US was the largest supplier of major arms to Israel between 2020 and 2024 which ed for two-thirds of Israeli arms imports in this period.

These imports have included armoured vehicles, combat aircraft and guided bombs.

The same report also showed the size of Israel’s own arms industry - it was the eighth largest arms exporter in the same period.

The US gives Israel $3.8bn (£2.8bn) in military aid every year under an agreement signed in 2016 during the Obama istration.

Image source, Reuters

Jake Horton
BBC journalist

The verification team is continuing to locate footage posted via social media and messaging apps showing the aftermath of strikes in Iran. So far we have verified footage from five locations across the country.

We have good coverage of the capital, Tehran, where clips from several different areas show damage to what appear to be residential buildings.

Another key site is near Natanz - 220km (140 miles) south of the capital - where it's been reported that Iran has a uranium enrichment facility. We’ve verified three videos from near there which show smoke billowing into the sky.

There are three other areas we’ve confirmed footage from - Piranshahr, Kermanshah and Tabriz in the west of the country. it's been reported that these are Iranian military facilities.

Rob Corp
BBC Live editor

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The Iranian government has announced that “temporary restrictions” have been placed on internet connections in the country. It added that restrictions would be lifted once the “situation returns to normal”.

This could have an impact on how much material we can source and today following last night’s Israeli strikes. Much of the footage and pictures we’re seeing is being shared by locals online.

We don’t know exactly how extensive these restrictions are - whether the whole country is offline or if Iranians can get around the restrictions using virtual private networks which routes traffic through a server elsewhere.

We’ve ed the internet monitoring organisation, Netblocks, to see if it is able to provide an assessment of what the situation is today.

Paul Brown
BBC senior journalist

Image source, Maxar

As we continue to footage from the ground following Israel’s overnight strikes on Iran, we’ll also start to turn our attention to satellite imagery of key locations.

This will help us asses the extent of damage at military and nuclear sites where there is no close-up footage available.

The image above, taken by Maxar in January, shows Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. We’ll be using it as a reference point to compare with any newer imagery that emerges over the coming hours and days.

We’ll be checking for signs of damage to buildings or infrastructure - such as scorch marks, craters or collapsed buildings.

We often also run our observations past experts to better understand what parts of these facilities may have been targeted.

Merlyn Thomas
BBC senior reporter

I’ve just been speaking on the BBC News Channel about some of the footage we’ve verified so far from the Israeli strikes on Iran.

Click play below to see me talk through some of the videos we've been looking at showing the aftermath of the attack, including from the capital Tehran and other places around the country.

Paul Brown
BBC senior journalist

We’ve verified a report from Iranian state TV that confirms the nuclear facilities in the city of Natanz were hit in last night’s Israeli air strikes.

The news report featured a journalist standing on a road near an industrial facility, with a column of black smoke emanating from it.

But we wanted to be sure it was indeed Natanz before confirming the strike ourselves. The mountains seen in the background of the report helped us geolocate the clip.

Google Earth has a function that offers a 3D view of the terrain in a certain area at ground level. This means you can get a graphical rendering of the topography of the area, which you can then use for geolocation.

In this case, we could see that the report was filmed from a road just to the north of the facility and that the smoke was indeed coming from the site itself.

Lucy Gilder
BBC journalist

We spent much of yesterday trying to find out as much as possible about the Air India jet which crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad killing all but one of the 242 people on board.

Our team assessed CCTV footage of the flight as it left the runway, and using flight tracking data we were able to pinpoint the last recorded location of the plane, at an altitude of 625ft and travelling at 200mph (354km/h)

Other images from the aftermath show that some of the plane’s wreckage was located just 1 mile (1.5km) from the end of runway.

Working with colleagues on the ground in India, BBC also spoke to aviation experts and pilots to find out what factors might have caused the fatal crash.

It’s worth pointing out that at this stage it’s almost impossible to definitively establish what caused the disaster based on videos of the brief flight.

Some experts have speculated that a double engine failure may have doomed the flight, while others have pointed to a bird strike or problems extending the aircraft's flaps during take-off.

You can watch the video below to find out more or read our write-up of the aviation experts’ views here.

Image source, FlightRadar24

Looking at flight-tracking website FlightRadar24 we can currently see no commercial flights over Iran, Israel, Iraq, Syria, and Jordan.

A series of Notams - advisory and warning notices sent to flight crews by air traffic control providers - have been issued, closing the routes used by airlines over these countries due to “operational reasons”.

Iran’s airspace was initially said to be closed until 10:00 GMT (11:00 BST). However, following Israeli strikes on several nuclear and military sites, a new advisory has been issued saying Iran’s airspace is closed indefinitely.

Shutting down Iran's airspace will mean flights between South and South-East Asia, the Middle East and Europe will have to take less direct routes making flights longer.

Israel has also closed its main international airport - Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv - and its biggest airline, El Al, has suspended services.

Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC senior journalist

I’ve been working since the early hours with journalists across the BBC to get a sense of the scale of Israel’s strikes on Iran.

So far, we have verified footage showing the aftermath of strikes at two known Iranian military sites.

In footage filmed overnight in Piranshahr, where a ballistic missile site is believed to be located, we’ve seen a series a explosions at one location. Aftermath footage from the same spot shows fires continuing to burn.

We’ve also seen multiple videos showing plumes of smoke rising from an area close to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base in Kermanshah province. This is also believed to be a missile storage site.

Meanwhile, Iranian state TV has aired a report from the Natanz nuclear facility in Isfahan where thick black smoke can be seen rising from the site.

We are also looking into online footage said to be from the same location to get a sense of what parts of the facility have been targeted.

Rob Corp
BBC Live editor

Hello from the live page team.

Our main focus today we'll be on the major overnight air strikes launched by Israel against a large number of targets in Iran.

We are currently working to :

• How many targets in Iran were attacked
• What was happening at those places - were they military or nuclear weapons facilities?
• Footage showing the air strikes happening and the aftermath
• The scale of Iran's retaliation - 100 drones have reportedly been launched towards Israel
• The impact on the wider region in of air travel and defensive actions by Israel's neighbours

We'll keep you updated on those lines here on BBC Live - and for all the latest analysis and reaction head to the main BBC News live page.