Tehran, MINA – Nearly 45,000 homes were partially damaged or destroyed in the Iranian capital during the war with the United States and Israel, with hundreds in need of demolition, a government official has said.
Quoted from The New Arab on Tuesday, a fragile truce has held in the nearly six-week war which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February. The ceasefire is supposed to end on Wednesday and talks between the US and Iran are yet to make a breakthrough.
US President Donald Trump and his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have vowed to carry out further devastating attacks on Iran if a deal on its nuclear and missile programmes and the Strait of Hormuz is not reached.
Massive strikes pounded Tehran and other major cities across the country, significantly depleting military and government assets and destroying civilian infrastructure. Many residential neighbourhoods were also left in ruins.
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On Sunday, Ali Nasiri, head of Tehran’s Crisis Management Organisation, (TCMO) said a total of 44,750 residential units in the capital have been damaged so far, of which about 37,468 units required only minor repairs. []
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
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