Security in IRAN
Iran is one of the most secure countries in Middle East and Caucasus. in some cases, Iran is even safer than some famous touristic countries like USA or Russia or India. For example, you can see global murder rates HERE and crime rates HERE and Iran is not even in the list of dangerous countries for sexual harassment.
Because Iran neighbors Afghanistan which is the number one drug producer of the world, and since most of these drugs must be carried to Europe by large international drug trafficking cartels, Iran became the main route for transferring drugs to Europe and sadly it has cost Iran and Iranians a great deal; during these years many Iranian police men have lost their lives fighting drug dealers and the government has invested huge amounts of money to make the roads more and more dangerous for these criminals, nowadays they can’t operate as they did in the past and if you travel to cities near Afghanistan you can see thousands of police men who are maintaining road security and it has been nearly 8 years since no more safety problem caused by drug traffickers has happened inside Iran.
But nowadays due to lack of reliable safety in Pakistan and southern Afghanistan because of Taliban, we recommend you to stay away from Pakistani border and border areas near southern Afghanistan.