Mine danger confines the UN’s Sumar survey to the air

UN experts found Bareh Bijeh levelled except for a water tower that had served as a watchtower. The surviving utility structure stood amid a devastated village landscape.

The mission observed total destruction and abandonment in Mehran and its surroundings. Reconstruction plans were reportedly nearing completion, while clearing work had started. Planning did not mean...

Travelling from Dehloran to Mehran, the mission visited Islamiyeh’s site. The report described repeated changes of control and conversion into a military camp; nothing remained of the village.

The mission visited Shahid Keshvari, one of Ilam’s small displacement camps. The visit placed displaced civilians alongside the city’s repaired buildings in the UN assessment of Iran’s postwar...

UN experts inspected Guilan-e-Gharb’s hospital remains, finding removed fixtures and devastated laboratory and X-ray buildings. The former maternity ward site was an empty lot, underscoring severe...

Surveying by helicopter because of mine danger, experts found apparent total destruction at Naftshahr, including town buildings and oil installations. The mission was not informed of reconstruction...

The mission found Qasr-e-Shirin nearly empty apart from construction workers clearing debris. Water, sewerage and electricity networks were destroyed beyond repair, and authorities planned to...

UN experts found extensive destruction in Sar-e-Pol-Zahab, but also repairable structures, partly functioning infrastructure and vigorous public and private construction. Recovery differed markedly...

At the Yazd Non agricultural scheme, experts found levelled garden farms, a destroyed pumping station and only foundations of storage buildings and houses. The bare land still retained traces of...

Experts observed mined stretches, embankments, military debris and severely disturbed land between Yazd Non and Hamidiyeh. Mine hazards and damaged terrain impeded the restoration of rural...