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Travel to Iran

Flying to Iran

The national airline is Iran Air (IR) (www.iranair.com).

Flight times:

From London to Tehran is 6 hours.

Departure tax:

Rs70,000 for all passengers leaving Iran on international filghts.

Travel by rail

RAJA Passenger Trains (www.raja.ir) operates passenger services from Tehran to Istanbul (Turkey) and Damascus (Syrian Arab Republic); from Tabiz to Djolfa (for the CIS) and Van (Turkey); and from Zahedan to Quetta (Pakistan).

Driving to Iran

Cars can also be put on boats at Venice or Brindisi and picked up at Ezmir.

For details of political conditions governing access, contact the embassy.

Getting to Iran by boat

The main port was Khorramshahr until its destruction during the war with Iraq. Following reconstruction, the port was reopened to ship traffic in 1992. Imam Khomeini (website: www.khomeiniport.com) is located in the northwestern edge of the Persian Gulf and near Iraq. The ports of Abbas and Bushehr are to be found in the Persian Gulf and Nowshahr and Anzelli on the Caspian Sea.

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