Final UN annex identifies airport damage claims the mission could not verify

Iran listed moderate-to-severe damage at Abadan and Ahvaz airports, moderate damage at Bakhtaran, and minor-to-moderate damage at Sanandaj, Urmiyeh and Tabriz. These are reported severity...

Iran’s inventory listed two Iran Air Boeing 727s and one Airbus, plus three Asseman Fairchild aircraft and one Shark commander, as destroyed. The mission could not verify the exact extent of...

Iran listed a Boeing 747 damaged by six percent and an Airbus by ten percent. These reported partial-damage grades differ from the destroyed-aircraft inventory; the mission could not verify the...

Iran listed climatological stations at 100 percent damage in Bakhtaran (one), Ilam (one), Kurdistan (18) and Khuzestan (seven), plus two in Azarbayjan at 80–100 percent. The inventory concerns...

Iran reported six synoptic stations damaged by 16–100 percent. The annex treated this as a separate inventory from climatological stations; weather data supported aviation, shipping, agriculture and...

The annex expected Abadan domestic flights by the end of November 1991 and international operations in January 1993. Terminal, tower and longer-runway work was continuing; these were assessment-period...

Iran prepared a plan covering 18 airports: some damaged, others needing expansion, and others to be built. The annex’s project count therefore should not be read as 18 airports all destroyed by war or...

Iran estimated the foreign-exchange component at 85.6 percent of remaining air-transport reconstruction costs. Aircraft, parts and airport equipment imports drove substantial needs; this forecast...

The storage subsector’s direct losses were reported as 66 percent buildings and installations and 34 percent machinery and equipment. Repairs limited verification; the mission saw a destroyed...

Abadan and Khorramshahr had combined rated capacity of two to three million tonnes yearly but sustained about six million through intensive use over several prewar years. The annex distinguished...