Are traveler's cheque widely accepted in Iran?

Are traveler's cheque widely accepted in Iran?

5/10/2015 1:46:11 PM

The Lonely Planet is correct here, western travel cheques are not useful in Iran, they have the same problems as Western credit cards.

Some bigger businesses have bank accounts in Dubai and may be able to handle your cards or even cheques but I wouldn’t count on it and they would always add an extra fee for it.

Using Iranian cheques may be an option, but you can only get them in Iran, so you still need to bring cash initially.

All the western tourists I met in Iran used cash only.

I have also met tourists who have been robbed, but all by getting their bag snapped from a motorbike, not at knife or gun point. So keep your cash on your body or in your hotel safe.

4/6/2014 6:54:12 AM

The second source is not correct.

Traveler cheque specially “Iran cheque” is widely used by people. “Iran cheque” is same as cash money but with larger amounts and is accepted in any shop or any bank exactly same as cash money.

Also people mostly use both the cash and the different national banks cards for payments in shops.

Perhaps this site can help you:

http://www.bmi.ir/En/default.aspx

Iran cheque is a kind of traveler cheque that is acceptable in all Iranian banks. but usual traveler cheque is acceptable only in the bank that has issued it. Iran cheque is widely used by people same as cash money. but the only difference is that Iran cheque has higher amounts.

Iran cheque can be obtained from any bank or from people or or money exchangers or shops. same as obtaining cash money.

This is a picture of Iran cheque:

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However 500,000 rial and 1,000,000 rial Iran Cheques circulate freely
and are treated as cash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_rial

A visitor can bring any currency inside Iran like USD and then exchange it to Iran cash like Iran cheques at any money exchange.

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