For travel to Iraq and participation in the Arbaeen pilgrimage, land routes have always been more popular among the general public because of the abundance of vehicles, lower costs, and easier access.
“Mehran border” in Ilam province is the most famous and most popular land border. This terminal has suitable welfare infrastructure, extensive parking lots, and round-the-clock service mawkibs.
An examination of the trend in bus ticket prices from Tehran to Mehran—by bus type—from 1401 to 1404 (2022–2026) shows that the price of a 25-passenger bus ticket has increased by more than one million tomans, equivalent to 232 percent.
This is while the country’s annual inflation rate in these years has typically fluctuated between 30 and 40 percent. Therefore, the annual increase in bus ticket prices has been more than twice the country’s general inflation.
Read the full note “Transportation costs of the Arbaeen journey: an increase beyond inflation” on the Namafar website.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian