Iran welcomed some 7.8 million foreign nationals last year, which shows a 52.5 percent increase year on year. The ultimate goal of the Islamic Republic is to attract 20 million foreign tourists ...

Brodi LeBlanc/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Getting your passport stamped is a highly satisfying ritual of entering a new country. These ink souvenirs serve as the ultimate flex that ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The spokesman for Iran’s Interior Ministry said President Hassan Rouhani’s order to stop stamping passports of foreign visitors at the country’s border crossings and ...

EMERGING from a carpet shop in Iran’s beautiful and ancient city of Esfahan, I was engulfed by a group of jostling young men. Like a desert mirage, as quickly as they had arrived they were gone.

The president ordered Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli on Sunday to make arrangements with the Iranian Police for a plan to eliminate the need for entry and exit stamps in the passport of ...

Philip Hersh: My favorite passport stamp in 25 years of globetrotting -- Iran By Philip Hersh Dec. 7, 2009 5:59 PM PT ...

TEHRAN – All Iranian border crossings let foreign nationals in without passport stamps according to a presidential decree that orders for the waiver of physical stamping on travelers’ passports upon ...

Iranian authorities will introduce protectionist measures to support the nation's tourism industry in the wake of unilateral US sanctions on Iran ...

However, due to what appears to be the result of a 2016 change to visa rules, a simple stamp in his passport reportedly kept Yorke grounded.

The staunchly anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Forces, a Christian party, slammed the passport directive as an attempt to help Iran send more forces to neighbouring Syria or move money to Hezbollah despite ...