Final UN report warns that repairs could preserve obsolete systems

Iran promoted chambers of commerce and industry as channels for investment information, technology and private-sector views. The final UN report described their role at national, provincial and...

The National Iranian Industries Organization had begun selling shares in about 300 enterprises through the Tehran Stock Exchange. The final UN report presented this as an element of postwar...

Iran allocated funds for grants to war-damaged small and medium-sized industries. The final UN report also described help arranging finance with local institutions to support their reconstruction.

The final UN report described many small construction firms emerging in war-damaged areas as owners used reconstruction grants and contracted rebuilding work. It connected housing recovery with...

The final UN report linked wartime priorities and restricted access to technological change with an ageing productive and infrastructure base. Restoring output quickly could conflict with the need...

The final UN report stated that recorded government reconstruction expenditure had been financed domestically. It linked spending priorities to maintaining oil production, industrial output,...

The UN team judged recorded reconstruction costs understated because they excluded cannibalized equipment and depleted spare-part stocks. These practices helped maintain production when attacks and...

Iran supplied future reconstruction-spending forecasts late in the mission, after specialists had departed. The final UN report said it could not examine them in detail and noted difficulty separating...

The final UN report stated that oil and petrochemicals represented 56.5 percent of the reconstruction expenditure forecast. It highlighted the sector’s large foreign-exchange requirements for modern...

Iran’s five-year plan envisaged about 27 billion dollars from foreign sources for specific new projects. The final UN report distinguished this from investments already being undertaken and...