Iranian passport cover
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Iranian passport

Lucky Nomads Passport Index

LN Passport score

16.02

Global rank

#193

Pure mobility

9.66

Score breakdown

Access weighted by livability

8.14

Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with longer stays counting for more.

Residence rights

2.22

The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, not just visit.

Tax friendliness

52

How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.

Optionality and freedom

26.65

Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.

Free-movement destinations: 1. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 33.

Where this passport can go

Live and work freely (1)

  • Svalbard

Visa-free (17)

  • Armenia
  • Cook Islands
  • Dominica
  • Georgia
  • Haiti
  • Iraq
  • Kazakhstan
  • Malaysia
  • Micronesia (Federated States of)
  • Niue
  • Oman
  • Pitcairn Islands
  • Suriname
  • Tajikistan
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Venezuela

Visa on arrival (12)

  • Comoros
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Lebanon
  • Liberia
  • Macao
  • Madagascar
  • Maldives
  • Mauritius
  • Palau
  • Samoa
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tuvalu

Electronic travel authorization (3)

  • Kenya
  • Seychelles
  • Sri Lanka

eVisa (61)

  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Ascension
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Chad
  • Colombia
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Cuba
  • Djibouti
  • Ecuador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • Guinea
  • Guyana
  • Hong Kong
  • Indonesia
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lesotho
  • Malawi
  • Mauritania
  • Montserrat
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Qatar
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Helena
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Serbia
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Togo
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tristan da Cunha
  • Uganda
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vietnam
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Visa required (135)

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Alderney
  • Algeria
  • Andorra
  • Anguilla
  • Argentina
  • Aruba
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bonaire
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Cape Verde
  • Cayman Islands
  • Central African Republic
  • Chile
  • China
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Curaçao
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini
  • Falkland Islands
  • Faroe Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • French Polynesia
  • Gambia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guernsey
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Kiribati
  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Myanmar
  • Nauru
  • Netherlands
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Palestinian Territories
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Saba
  • Saint Barthelemy
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Saint-Martin (French part)
  • San Marino
  • Sark
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Singapore
  • Sint Eustatius
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sudan
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • Uruguay
  • Vatican City
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Yemen

Banned (5)

  • Israel
  • Libya
  • Puerto Rico
  • United States
  • US Virgin Islands
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Researched from official sources, leading global indices and Lucky Nomads' own scoring.