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Thanks Stephano - I just dropped you a private email with more queries!!!!!
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You don't actually need a carnet to enter Iran, strictly speaking. You can get a local Iranian carnet at the border. I think it's around $200. That said, I'm not sure if it's possible at every border. I know it is possible at the Turkish border.

It would be far cheaper to do this if you'll not be needing a carnet elsewhere
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Wow - I never knew this. I was told for Iran that you absolutely needed a carnet de passage and you could be chucked in jail if you didn't have one.
This would solve all our problems of deposits etc? Do you know where I would find out more information on this - getting a carnet at the border?

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Wow - I never knew this. I was told for Iran that you absolutely needed a carnet de passage and you could be chucked in jail if you didn't have one.
This would solve all our problems of deposits etc? Do you know where I would find out more information on this - getting a carnet at the border?

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If you go down this route, you should double check with the ferry company (Oasis) because from what I recall they ask to see all your documentation before they sell you a ticket. Good luck.
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Wow - I never knew this. I was told for Iran that you absolutely needed a carnet de passage and you could be chucked in jail if you didn't have one.
This would solve all our problems of deposits etc? Do you know where I would find out more information on this - getting a carnet at the border?

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Try this, maybe he still working.
Iran :: Carnet de Passage at the border
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Are you planning to go through Pakistan after Iran? You can get through there as well without a Carnet, you know. But you will be given a police escort all the way through and you WILL be stuffed when you reach India, as the collection of impounded foreign-registered vehicles at Wagah Border attests. You will have to leave your vehicle there and then either go off and get one or say bye bye to the vehicle.
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Hi

we will be going through Iran and on to Turkey and then Europe so only need the carnet for Iran. I think this will be our last chance to ever go to Iran and from what I hear about it-I have to goeven with these challenges! I now have an Iranian agent who can do the carnet at Bandar abbas (Hossein) but still in the early stages of discussing it so will let you know what comes out of it.

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Is this true?

Our South African carnet covers every country except Iran. Does anyone have any idea where we can actually get this Iranian temporary vehicle import document, any real experience of doing so. Where to go etc...
That is of course if the country doesn't go up in a big white flash or us Brits get banned because of Britains ridiculous foreign policy of constant meddling in the middle east.

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You don't actually need a carnet to enter Iran, strictly speaking. You can get a local Iranian carnet at the border. I think it's around $200. That said, I'm not sure if it's possible at every border. I know it is possible at the Turkish border.

It would be far cheaper to do this if you'll not be needing a carnet elsewhere
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Our South African carnet covers every country except Iran.
I would just take out/replace the last sheet.

I've never had anybody look at the list of covered countries except once, when the Guinean customs official had to discover that Guinea was indeed covered, much to his disappointment, of course.
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