The Shalamcheh border in Khuzestan province is the second most trafficked border for Iranian pilgrims. The relatively level route and suitable welfare facilities on both sides of the border have made the Shalamcheh terminal especially popular among pilgrims who set out for Karbala from the country’s southern provinces.
An examination of the trend in bus ticket prices from Tehran to Shalamcheh—by bus type—from 1402 to 1404 (2023–2026) shows that the price of a 25-passenger bus ticket has increased by about one million tomans, equivalent to 114 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 to the Shalamcheh border 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