Final UN report anticipates a long heritage-restoration timetable

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 recorded requests for international advice on conserving stone, baked brick and adobe. Technical assistance was also sought for studying Shushtar’s ancient water mills and irrigation...

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...

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,...

Most refineries had regained or exceeded prewar production after repairs and debottlenecking. Abadan operated at a little over one third of original capacity because of crude shortages, although it...

The joint-venture petrochemical plant at Bandar Khomeini was more than 60 percent complete when war began. The report described suspension of the project because of damage, high reconstruction costs...