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Follow us on Google A satellite image shows an oil terminal at Kharg Island, Iran, February 25, 2026. ( photo credit : 2026 PLANET LABS PBC/Handout via REUTERS ) By YONAH JEREMY BOB JUNE 16, 2026 11:49 Updated : JUNE 16, 2026 12:02 Israeli satellites photographed Iran a jaw-dropping over 50,000 times during the around 40-day Operation Roaring Lion , The Jerusalem Post has learned. This statistic would mean that Israeli satellites were taking well over 1,000 photos per day of the Islamic Republic during the war. It also dwarfs the around 12,000 satellite photos that Israel took of Iran during the June 2025 war, according to the Defense Ministry. Advertisement Even those 12,000 photos captured tens of millions of square kilometers of Iranian territory through both day and night. This means that Israel likely captured more than a hundred million square kilometers, if not hundreds of millions, during the recent war. Ofek 19 satellite launched by Israel. (credit: Kobi Richter) 50,000 satellite images, 18,000 bombs, 4,000 targets On April 9, the IDF revealed many of its other final statistics to date from the Iran war, including dropping 18,000 bombs. Advertisement That number over 38 days represents around five times the number of bombs that the IDF dropped on Iran over 12 days during the June 2025 war. These bombs were dropped as part of 1,000 waves of aircraft, with those aircraft flying 8,5000 separate sorties. During those sorties, there were around 10,800 attacks, which focused on around 4,000 different targets, which collectively had around 6,700 different components to them. For example, one target might be an entire base with several different buildings or threat items to strike. Advertisement The pace of the bombing, as massive as it was, mostly dropped on a steady basis starting from mid-March. In the early days of the war, both Israel and the US were dropping around 1,000 bombs or striking around 1,000 targets daily. On April 6, the US CENTCOM said that it had struck over 13,000 targets within Iran. However, the size of Israeli and American targets is not entirely comparable. At different times, both Israel and American officials have claimed that they bombed more targets than the other party, while always making sure to lavish praise on the counterpart air force. For most of the war, the parties also divided up the country by region, with Israel mostly attacking in western, northern, and central Iran, including Tehran , and the US focused more on southern Iran as well as the various waterways. 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