UN experts visit two model villages being built on Abadan Island

The UN mission was shown an abandoned school in Abadan bearing damage and signs of vandalism. Restoring education required attention to buildings and fittings as residents gradually returned.

Experts were shown a cinema with major cracks in Abadan. Iranian officials linked structural movement to hydrological changes, but the mission could not verify that explanation during its initial...

During the Abadan survey, UN experts saw one rehabilitated clinic. Iranian officials reported another repaired clinic and two under rehabilitation, illustrating incremental restoration of local...

Touring rural Abadan Island, UN experts found many houses apparently unoccupied for a long period. Some showed deterioration from neglect and others war damage, indicating obstacles to displaced...

The mission saw at least six abandoned brick kilns on Abadan Island, some partly destroyed. Officials said they would not be rehabilitated because their bricks were poor quality; the causes and timing...

In Bostan, UN experts saw houses bearing signs of two rehabilitation stages, damaged schools and a damaged reconstruction warehouse. Repeated fighting had disrupted earlier efforts to restore the...

The mission found deserted villages around Rafei, with some people living in makeshift dwellings nearby. Much damage involved flooding and vulnerable mud-brick buildings; most villages showed no...

UN experts found much of old Howeyzeh razed and its bridge destroyed. The report described Iranian construction of houses, schools, a hospital and civic buildings as the town was replanned on a larger...

The mission inspected bomb-damaged residential and commercial sites in Ahvaz, including the railway-station area and oil-company housing. Debris had been cleared and most inspected buildings...

UN experts saw the remains of Dehloran’s water-treatment plant amid extensive destruction. Government buildings and some houses were being rebuilt, but restoration of settlement services remained a...