UN survey finds temporary telephone services amid Howeyzeh’s ruins

Mines prevented ground visits to badly damaged farmland around Qasr-e-Shirin, Sar-e-Pol-Zahab and Guilan-e-Gharb. An aerial overview revealed flattened agricultural buildings, damaged land and...

The mission visited Khorramshahr’s destroyed telephone-exchange site and saw a completed replacement building with a new exchange. Surrounding demolition showed that communications recovery could...

Experts inspected Abadan’s damaged telephone sites, where offices had been rebuilt and exchange equipment replaced. Cable routes remained badly damaged and were being renewed, leaving network recovery...

In Dezful, the mission found a reconstructed exchange building and repaired main exchange, then inspected damaged underground and open-wire distribution systems. Repairs had started but would take...

The mission visited Bostan’s telecommunications facilities and found evidence of complete destruction. Re-establishing local connections was a separate task from repairing houses and schools in the...

Visiting Qasr-e-Shirin, the telecommunications expert found the town’s exchange infrastructure destroyed and no equipment remaining. Communications restoration was essential to a settlement still...

Along the Ahvaz–Khorramshahr–Abadan corridor, experts found the Daub and Khorramshahr North microwave repeater sites levelled. Tanks and shells remained around the northern site, demonstrating the...

The mission visited Abadan’s microwave station, rebuilt at a different location. The old site still showed a collapsed antenna section and heavily damaged walls, preserving visible evidence of the...

At Martyr Chaman radio station near Bakhtaran, experts found destroyed antennas and generator equipment. A new antenna had been erected and replacement equipment placed in underground shelters.

On-site inspection of Beit-Al-Maqaddas radio station showed destroyed towers and buildings. New towers stood nearby, while replacement generator and transmitter rooms had been placed in underground...