Final UN report seeks technical help for Shushtar’s historic water system

The report described replacement of broadcasting equipment with more powerful, advanced components. Housing new stations in thick concrete shelters to reduce future damage increased reconstruction...

The UN mission praised communications reconstruction but identified commissioning difficulties as projects multiplied. IRIB sometimes relied on equipment suppliers because trained engineers were...

Iran’s heritage priorities included revised plans, suitable organization, legal and financial support, workforce rehabilitation, modernized equipment and restoration of damaged sites and...

Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization estimated only about one tenth of restoration complete. The report recorded 37,300 million rials required and about 23,000 million spent, excluding overheads,...

Iran sought training in conservation, restoration, documentation and museology. The report also recorded needs for photogrammetric equipment, monument-inventory software, specialist publications and...

The report proposed focusing a draft UNDP heritage project on Tehran’s National Research Laboratory. It also identified funding needs to restore historic houses in Esfahan for expansion of the...

Despite substantial human resources and the competence of traditional craftsmen and supervising experts, the UN mission expected completion of necessary cultural-heritage restoration to take many...

The report recorded Kharg Island’s crude-oil loading capacity falling from a prewar 14 million barrels per day to about 2 million. It linked the reduction to extensive damage at Iran’s principal...

Kharg’s crude-oil storage capacity fell from 22 million barrels in 39 tanks before the war to 10 million barrels. The report stated that attack-related fires completely destroyed 21 tanks.

Iranian authorities estimated upstream oil reconstruction, combining past expenditure and future requirements, at 795,500 million rials and $18,999 million. The report covered southern fields,...