Iran exempts drafted overseas students but monetizes draft evasion by travelers
Evidence
A few means of evasion have emerged in compulsory soldiering: Iranian-heritage men who have successfully dodged the draft by living abroad through age twenty-seven have an option to pay their way out of the mandatory service. Draft dodgers must pay two hundred million rials (between six thousand and seventy-five hundred dollars) to enter Iran from abroad and avoid military service. Before age twenty-seven, students at non-Iranian universities can use documentation of their active student status to gain an exemption stamp at the daftar (embassy office); or, in the case of those studying and living in the United States, where there is no Iranian embassy, men can obtain the stamp at the Embassy of Pakistan’s Iranian Interests Section. The stamp then allows draft-aged men to visit Iran for up to three months twice a year while under active student status. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 379
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