How Donald Trump’s travel ban has hit Iran’s tourism renaissance

“For visitors the lure is the culture and history of a sophisticated civilisation, with no fewer than 19 Unesco heritage sites, which had been inaccessible for decades when Iran was shunned as a pariah state. Now the country is also viewed as safe in comparison with other states offering similar attractions in the region – Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, Libya – places which have become no-go areas due to the varying degrees of threats from terrorism or civil war.  Mr Trump’s repeated threat to withdraw the US from the nuclear agreement, achieved through years of painstaking negotiations, is creating concern that Iran will be pushed back towards isolation.”

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-iran-travel-ban-nuclear-deal-tourism-tehran-renaissance-kim-sengupta-a7895151.html

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