Foreign Office downgrades Iranian travel warning
Britain’s foreign office has relaxed its travel advice over Iran following the historic nuclear deal agreed earlier this month.
Although parts of the border with Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan remain off-limits because of bandits, drug trafficking and separatist militants, the rest of the country has been declared safe for travel.
However it calls on Britons to avoid traveling to border areas close to Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. However, most of the people seldomly recommend not virtually vital travel to the whole of Iran and also have also refreshed our information to deliver you higher cleanness on the chances and are likely to tear down British citizens site-seeing to Iran.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said there had been “decreasing hostility under President [Hassan] Rouhani’s government”. He said there has been “decreasing hostility” toward Britons under Rouhani’s government.
The Iranian President presided over the landmark deal on 14 July that saw his country commit to limits on its nuclear programme to calm fears of weapons development, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions worth billions of dollars.
Since the embassy is still closed, it said it could only offer limited consular support, although in urgent cases, British nationals can use the embassy of any other EU member state in Tehran.
It is expected that Iran will be soon welcoming a considerable number of British visitors now that the UK has lifted the travel ban in regard to visiting Iran.