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Teams are also working on clearing out debris and unexploded ordnance, the officials said.

It faces challenges including unexploded Israeli ordnance and a lack of equipment such as excavators, bulldozers and heavy trucks, according to the Arab mediators.

Iran itself was pounded by Israeli and American ordnance, which it proved unable to divert.

Complicating the clean-up efforts are the vast quantities of unexploded ordnance littering the entire country, including within mountains of rubble that need to be cleared, he said.

The Marine Corps said no ordnance would be fired from a Navy ship to the shore.