Final UN report explains its dollar conversion for civilian damage

The mission identified acute technical-assistance needs in social services. It highlighted a role for experienced private organizations supporting people physically disabled by war or traumatized by...

The mission recommended a round-table under UN or other appropriate auspices for Iran, UN Member States and relevant agencies to discuss reconstruction cooperation. It anticipated at least six...

Iran supplied a final assessment of economic war damage with details additional to those given to the first UN mission. The final UN report used this new government documentation in reviewing...

To assess reconstruction needs, the UN mission focused on direct damage in non-military sectors. Its analysis excluded armed-forces machinery, equipment, materials and goods; the resulting estimate...

Iran’s additional damage data valued domestic materials and equipment in rials and imported items in dollars. Authorities said both components used replacement costs at 1988 prices, establishing the...

The report valued non-military damage at $97,248 million: $54,827 million for domestic-origin assets after conversion and $42,421 million for imported items. This was a scoped estimate based on...

Converted to rials, non-military damage totaled 23,047,817 million, almost equal to Iran’s estimated 1988 GDP of 23,048,200 million rials. The report used this comparison to convey scale, not to...

The damage data did not value destroyed or damaged housing and commercial buildings because of the number and varied conditions of the units. The report instead supplied replacement-building cost...

The government’s detailed damage tables omitted ports, shipping and civilian-aircraft losses. Additional municipal and private-manufacturing data arrived after the government assessment was issued,...

Iran defined indirect damage to include productive and service capacity that would have been used without the war, plus resources diverted to defense instead of creating economic capacity. The...