Question
I got an email sent thru OCM regarding some books I have listed here on OCM. The person is asking if I will ship to Tehran University in Karaj Iran. He hasn't bid yet. I'm assuming he's wanting to know the shipping price, although he didn't ask. He just asked if I would ship there.
Is the U.S. allowed to ship books to Iran? I thought I read somewhere that books were not allowed to be shipped to Iran, but I could be wrong.
Answer
Here are the Iranian shipping prohibitions
Alcoholic beverages.
Books, newspapers, printed matter, writing, records, pictures, emblems and any other articles of a seditious or immoral nature or contrary to religion or accepted customs.
Used clothing.
Coins; banknotes; currency notes; securities payable to bearer; gold, silver, platinum, manufactured or not; jewelry, precious stones; and other valuable articles unless sent in insured parcel post.
Fashion newspapers.
Firearms of all kinds; weapons; and ammunition.
Games involving profit and loss (for example, dice or card games).
Musical instruments.
Perishable infectious biological substances.
Perishable noninfectious biological substances.
Radio systems that are equipped with a single sideband; upper sideband; lower sideband; beat frequency oscillator; continuous air wave band; police band; or an FM band having a frequency range of 76 to 87 Mhz.
Radioactive materials.
Skins of animals the consumption of whose flesh is prohibited by Islam.
Sugar, brown sugar.
Answer
Thanks! I will email him and give him the bad news. No books to Iran.
Answer
Oops, I missed this part for books:
"of a seditious or immoral nature or contrary to religion or accepted customs".
So it looks like regular fiction novels would be ok.