{"id":23210,"date":"2018-10-17T11:10:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/?p=23210"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:30:45","slug":"tourists-passports-no-longer-stamped-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/tourists-passports-no-longer-stamped-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists\u2019 Passports No Longer Stamped in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To alleviate tourists’ concerns over US sanctions on individuals visiting Iran, Passports of travellers entering Iran will not being stamped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initiative is a direct countermeasure to a travel restriction put in place by the US after Trump issued an order in March 2017<\/a>, restricting travel to the US for those who have visited Iran, in addition to Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Visa authorisation letter stamped at the Tehran International Airport<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It was implemented from the first day of the second half of the Iranian year on Sept. 23, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement said, adding that the measure has been communicated to all representative offices of the Islamic Republic abroad as well as domestic airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initiative, which was previously piloted in Iran’s offices in Doha, Muscat and across the Imam Khomeini (Tehran), Mashhad and Shiraz international airports, is part of a bigger support package to stave off the detrimental effects of US sanctions as well as the ongoing currency crisis facing the country’s tourism sector.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A note at the Iranian Embassy in Germany emphasizes that from September 23, 2018 passports of travellers entering Iran will not being stamped.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n