Tehran municipality report: the capital was hit 650 times in the 40 day war and more than 50,000 homes were damaged

A statistical report by the urban planning and architecture deputy of Tehran municipality on damage from air strikes on civilian areas of the capital was presented at a session titled "Unfinished Narratives of the City" at the University of Tehran's faculty of urban planning. Hossein Nouhi, a court certified expert and head of permit issuance for Tehran municipality's District 5, cited the report as saying the city was hit 650 times during the 40 day war, with some locations struck more than five times by missiles, bombs and drones. According to the same report, District 4 recorded the most strikes at 90, followed by District 21 with 62, District 1 with 57 and District 22 with 55, while District 17 recorded the fewest at three.

The municipality report says more than 50,000 residential units in Tehran sustained damage in the 40 day war, ranging from minor to total. About 40,000 units needed minor repairs such as broken glass and windows, roughly 8,900 suffered damage to architectural elements with the structure intact, 415 required reinforcement or renewal, and more than 2,000 were completely destroyed. By comparison, in the 12 day war 27 provinces were struck 359 times and Tehran, hit 108 times, had 8,520 damaged residential units.

In the 40 day war 29 provinces were targeted, and according to the Interior Ministry the provinces of Tehran, Isfahan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Bushehr, Kermanshah and East Azerbaijan were the worst affected. The head of the Red Crescent Society has put the nationwide total of damaged residential and commercial units at 149,528, comprising more than 123,000 homes, 24,000 commercial units and 350 health and treatment centres. Nouhi also referred to an estimate of $280 billion in national damage from the 40 day war and said Tehran municipality has made shelter construction a requirement in new building permits. The scale of residential and commercial reconstruction feeds into domestic markets through demand for building materials and the capital's housing market.