UN survey observes active rebuilding in Sar-e-Pol-Zahab

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...

Extensive minefields forced experts to survey the Sumar area by helicopter. They saw no standing building in the deserted town, while some nearby villages appeared inhabited and less damaged.

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...

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...

West of the Ahvaz–Hamidiyeh road, experts saw cleared land under wheat and barley cultivation. These were reported as the first crops since the war began, but degraded soil and poor germination...

East of the Ahvaz–Hamidiyeh road, experts found abandoned irrigation canals, mines, trenches and ravaged terrain. Farm equipment could not readily reach the land, and irrigation was virtually...

At pumping stations between Ahvaz and Abadan, the mission found most pumps missing or destroyed and no visible surrounding canals. Restoring farmland required rebuilding water distribution as well...