Final UN report records efforts to attract back trained personnel

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...

The final UN report relayed concerns that pollution and contamination along the Karun River constrained regional economic activity and affected farmland. It identified environmental recovery as a...

Authorities reported unusually frequent eye, stomach and skin illnesses in affected rural communities. The final UN report stated that health authorities could not explain the exact cause, despite...

The final UN report described more than 250 kilometres of tar- or asphalt-covered beaches between Abadan and the Strait of Hormuz. Leaking tankers attacked during the war were considered a possible...

Oil pollution was reported to affect the economic life of more than 20 Persian Gulf islands. The final UN report described losses of mangroves and seagrass and a serious threat to prawn fishing.

Sunken vessels in the Shatt al-Arab threatened fishing livelihoods and surrounding ecology. The final UN report said cargo records were unavailable and called for international help and...