Financial Tribune - Iraqi tourists accounted for the highest number of foreigners who visited Iran during the seven months to Oct. 22, Ali Asghar Mounesan, the head of Iran�s Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization, said.

A total of 1,926,310 Iraqis visited Iran in the seven-month period, followed by 989,836 Azerbaijani, 557,579 Afghans, 483,302 Turks and 159,728 Pakistanis, the Persian economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad reported.

This is while the number of tourists from Iraq stood at 1,356,185 in the last Iranian year (March 2017-18) and 1,398,201 in the year before (March 2016-17).

A total of 959,653 and 981,200 tourists from Azerbaijan visited Iran over the last year and the year before, respectively.