Iran: carnet etc.
Hi Dakar Pirate, and thanks for your reply.
In all seriousness, I think your last line is very good advice: just turn up!
I was in touch with Stantours, who on various occasions in the past have provided me with good service. They offered a "guide": the cost seemed enormous (hundreds of some hard currency). I said "no thanks, I wouldn't want to go through Iran with a guide", but I'd misunderstood. The "guide" would get me through the border, only (then disappear).
I've been through Iran twice: in 2004, on buses etc. and in 2011 with my Land Rover. I've found the Iranians -all the ones I met- to be courteous, very generous and so on. When I exited last time, to Iran, my experience with the border people was excellent and heart-warming. It might well be that at a border, a "special service"/"special payment" and a sincere (i.e. to be kept) promise to say nothing to anyone about it would get one in. There'd be the matter of getting out, of course, which in my case would be from Bandar Abbas, on a ferry.
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