Iran’s Roads Maintenance and Transport Organization has announced that 26 trucks and their Iranian drivers are en route to home after being stranded at the borders of Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
Nineteen trucks are currently being escorted by Turkish police towards the Iranian border, according to the organization.
They received permission from Romanian customs authorities to leave the country and pass through the Bulgarian border into the country and later into the Turkish territory after negotiations took place by Iranian ambassadors with authorities in the European countries.
Another seven trucks with their 13 drivers have been transported by ship to a Greek port near the border crossing with Turkey in Ipsala. They had been stuck in an Italian port for several days.
This happened amid the coronavirus outbreak in Europe and after the European countries announced unexpected strict border restrictions for both European and non-European trucks.
Iranian authorities from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development reacted after a video went viral on twitter showing a line of Iranian trucks stuck at the border between Romania and Bulgaria.
One of the drivers speaking in the video says that some trucks contain medicine and medical supplies bought from European markets and need to be headed to Iran as soon as possible.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced hot-lines in Tehran and at its embassies in Europe which are available round the clock to pursue similar cases.