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They don’t let me leave IRAN 🇮🇷 | S8, EP26
EDITORIAL SUMMARY
This episode follows Itchy Boots through 250 kilometres of motorcycle travel in Iran, with an attempt to continue into Iraq. A problem with the stamp in her Carnet de Passage stops the planned departure when customs does not allow her to leave Iran.
About this film
Listed as Season 8, Episode 26 of To the Far East, the film centres on a border-crossing plan that does not go as intended. Itchy Boots rides 250 kilometres in Iran before trying to leave the country and enter Iraq. At customs, the stamp in her Carnet de Passage is identified as the wrong one, and she is not permitted to depart. The episode’s story therefore turns on the practical requirements of crossing a border with a motorcycle: the journey depends not only on riding onward, but also on having the correct documentation. The supplied description does not say what happens after the refusal, so the focus here is the attempted crossing and the obstacle that interrupts it.
The journey
The route information is concise: 250 kilometres of riding in Iran, followed by an attempt to enter Iraq. No towns, roads, terrain or riding conditions are specified, so this is not an episode to choose for a particular landscape or detailed route guide. Its travel interest lies in the progression from a day’s ride to an international crossing, and in the way a paperwork problem changes that plan. The Carnet de Passage stamp is the stated cause of the difficulty; customs does not let Itchy Boots leave Iran. That makes the border process—not a mechanical issue or a change of destination—the central challenge described for this instalment.
People, places and moments
Iran is the setting for the riding described, while Iraq is the intended next country. The only encounter identified in the source is with customs at the point where Itchy Boots tries to leave Iran. The description gives no further detail about the officials, the crossing location, or how the document problem is resolved. Viewers can expect a travel episode shaped by the contrast between forward movement on the motorcycle and a border procedure that prevents the planned onward journey. It is a grounded logistical detour within the season’s wider Far East journey, rather than a route account with detailed geographic stops.
What to expect
- 250 kilometres of motorcycle travel in Iran.
- An attempted crossing from Iran into Iraq.
- A Carnet de Passage stamp problem that prevents departure.
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