Azerbaijan, Baku Aug. 31 / Trend, N. Umid
The income of Iraq's Karbala city from Iranian pilgrimages hits some $135,000 per day, Iranian Tejarate-farda Journal reported.
Karbala, receives some 5,000 visitors every day.
Iraqi Media outlets reported that over 2.5 million tourists visited Iraq in 2012, most of them on pilgrimage to the country's holy shrines.
An estimated 6,000 Iranian pilgrims cross the border into Iraq every day, the report said.