The Rules for Accepting Passengers to Iran During Corona Virus Pandemic
COVID 19 Protocol for traveling to Iran
Iran accepts foreign passengers and travelers from 23rd October 2021 and issue tourist visa for them. Iran Ministry of Health and Medical Education issued a protocol for breaking the spread of the pandemic as follows:
- All fully vaccinated travelers are welcomed to Iran.
- All passengers 8 of years or older even fully vaccinated travelers, must provide proof of a COVID-19 negative molecular test result. You must take a molecular test within 96 hoursof the scheduled departure time of your flight to Iran.
- Passengers should apply for Iran visa through Iranian authorized tour operators and travel agencies.
- Iran accepts the passengers of countries with less COVID 19 cases. The passengers from the following countries including those travelers who traveled to these countries within 14 days before their trip to Iran, are prohibited to enter to Iran. International organizations’ authorities, diplomates, government official staffs who has official permit from Iran government are exception to this rule. The pilots who have sent to these countries for training courses can enter to Iran if they have official letter from their airline.
Botswana, Brazil, India, Lesotho, Malavi, Mozambique, Nepal, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uruguay and Eswatini.
The following countries are among the countries with high risk of COVID 19 and travel to them is subject to compliance with certain protocols:
Argentina, Cape Verd, Bolivia, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Lithuania, Malaysia,
Maldives, Namibia, Paraguay, Pero, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Mongolia, Syria, Seychelles, Tanzania, Trinidad, Tobago and Tunisia. The travelers of this countries or those who were in transit in these countries for more than 4 hours, must provide PCR test. There is an exception for Passengers from Lithuania if they are vaccinated with the final dose at least 15 whole days before arrival to Iran.
The passengers from other countries are in green list and can travel to Iran providing a PCR test before entering to Iran.
Travelers from Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Finland, France, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Latvia, Luxemburg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portuguese, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom don’t need PCR testing if they are fully vaccinated.