UN reconstruction team begins its visit to Iran

The United States filed preliminary objections. These challenged the Court’s ability to hear Iran’s case.

Iran announced an agreement to resume relations with Saudi Arabia. This records the announcement rather than assigning every later normalization step to the same day.

The Court set a deadline for Iran’s written response to the preliminary objections.

The Secretary-General informed the Council that a team led by Abdulrahim Abby Farah would study war damage and reconstruction in Iran. The mission implemented paragraph 7 of Resolution 598.

Finance Minister Mohsen Nourbakhsh described negotiations for foreign credits to support investment. The reported target did not mean that all proposed financing had already been secured.

UN experts inspected the housing around Khorramshahr’s Customs area and found it heavily damaged beyond rehabilitation. Rebuilding homes remained a condition for restoring civilian life near the port.

The UN mission assessed a war-damaged brick palace used as a marine academy near Khorramshahr’s port. Despite major damage, it judged rehabilitation possible and recognized the building’s...

UN experts saw lively activity at a rehabilitated bazaar in Khorramshahr. The surrounding area appeared comparatively normal despite widespread destruction elsewhere in the city.

The mission saw a privately owned four-storey apartment building undergoing rehabilitation in central Khorramshahr, alongside housing construction elsewhere. Private rebuilding formed part of the...

Inspecting Minu Island’s rural housing, UN experts judged that prolonged abandonment and lack of maintenance caused much of the deterioration, while also observing apparent damage from hostilities.