Banking restrictions prevented the IELTS exam in Iran Pajmanfar, head of the Article 90 Committee: Banking restrictions prevented the "IELTS" test from being held in Iran. Before that, three groups were responsible for holding the IELTS test in Iran, and they had to pay part of the fees received for holding the test in foreign currency to the respective groups, but due to the limitations in official bank transfers, they could not be paid.