Afghan Refugees in Iran

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Security

Interior minister says 6 million foreign nationals residing in Iran

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Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni has said at least 6 million foreign nationals are currently residing in the country, with a portion of them being undocumented.
Security

Iranian police chief: 800k Afghan illegals forced out of country 

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Iran’s Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmadreza Radan says the country has deported 800 thousand illegal Afghan immigrants.
Security

Police chief: 850,000 undocumented Afghan migrants expelled from Iran

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The chief of Iran’s Law Enforcement Forces announced on Monday that 850,000 illegal Afghan migrants have been repatriated from Iran, as part of a broader plan to deport 2 million illegal residents by the end of the Iranian year, which ends on March 20.
Security

38,000 illegal Afghan migrants expelled from Iran’s Kerman province

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Approximately 38,000 illegal Afghan nationals have been arrested and deported from Iran’s southeastern Kerman province to their home country, the general commander of Kerman's Law Enforcement Force announced on Monday.
Urban

Governor: 2 to 3 million Afghan migrants add to Tehran’s complications

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The governor of Tehran says 2 to 3 million Afghan migrants are currently living in the Iranian capital, adding to the city's already strained infrastructure and resources. 
Security

Iran police chief: 2 million illegal Afghans to be deported by March 2025

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The commander of the Iranian Law Enforcement, General Ahmadreza Radan, says 2 million illegal Afghan refugees will be deported from Iran by the end of this Persian year, on March 19, 2025.
Security

Police chief reiterates Iran firm to expel 2mn illegal Afghan migrants within 5 months

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The commander of Iran's Law Enforcement Force has reiterated the police's firm determination to expel two million illegal Afghan migrants by the end of the current Iranian year on March 20.
Security

Police chief: Iran to deport 2 million illegal immigrants by mid-March

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The chief commander of Iran’s Law Enforcement Force announced a significant crackdown on illegal immigration from the eastern neighbor, Afghanistan.
Security

Iranian daily defends presence of Afghan nationals in Iran amid growing calls for expulsion

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Amid increasing public demands for the expulsion of illegal Afghan immigrants in Iran, the principlist newspaper Kayhan has come out in defense of Afghan nationals, particularly highlighting the strategic importance of the "Fatemiyoun" brigade within the Resistance Front.
Security

Police chief: Iran to repatriate two million illegal Afghan migrants in six months

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The head of Iran’s police force says two million undocumented Afghan migrants in Iran will be deported to their own country by the end of the current Iranian year, on March 20.
Security

Iranian interior minister tells Afghan nationals to leave Iran 

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Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni says all Afghan nationals must return to their own country.
Security

Iran says serious about expelling illegal immigrants

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Iran’s interior minister says a plan will soon get underway to organize immigrants by sending millions of undocumented migrants out of the country, mainly from neighboring Afghanistan, as the first step.
Security

Iran gives illegal migrants ultimatum to leave country

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A senior Iranian military commander has notified that illegal immigrants in Iran, mostly from neighboring Afghanistan, have until the end of the current year on the Persian calendar, March 20, to leave the country.
Security

Iran Police chief gives illegal migrants deadline to leave country

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Undocumented migrants in Iran, mostly from neighboring Afghanistan, have until the end of the current year on the Persian calendar, March 20, to leave the country, the Iranian police chief said on Wednesday.
Int'l Relations

Envoy says Iran hosting over 6mn Afghan refugees

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Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, has highlighted Tehran’s endeavors to deal with extremism and underdevelopment in Afghanistan. Iravani said Iran is hosting more than six million Afghans at an annual cost of 10 billion dollars, despite Western sanctions.
Human Rights

Iran defends human rights record, says hosts 8 million Afghan refugees

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The secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and deputy head of the Iranian Judiciary says Iran has received over eight million refugees from neighboring Afghanistan, contrasting the number with the seven to eight million people the US has killed since its establishment.
Security

Interior minister: Iran can take no more Afghan refugees

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The Iranian interior minister says Iran is overwhelmed with the influx of Afghan refugees who are a burden on the country’s already-strained resources and sanctions-hit economy.
Incidents

Afghan migrant dies, four wounded in mine blast on Iran-Iraq border 

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A mine explosion on the border between Iran and Iraq claimed the life of an illegal Afghan migrant and injured four others, the governor of the western Iranian town of Mehran said on Friday. 
Asia

Acting Afghan FM urges migrants in Iran to return home

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The foreign minister of the caretaker government in Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi visited representatives of Afghan migrants in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad on Monday, calling on all Afghans in Iran to return to their homeland as he said the conditions are back to normal.
Security

Afghanistan seeks economic revival to facilitate return of Afghan immigrants

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Amir Khan Mottaghi, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, expressed the nation's commitment to creating an environment conducive to the repatriation of Afghan immigrants.
Human Rights

Afghan caretaker govt. envoy thanks Iran for hosting refugees

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Mulla Abul Ghani Baradar, the Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan's caretaker government for economic affairs, appreciated Tehran for sheltering Afghan refugees seeking asylum in the Islamic Republic over the past decades.
Local

Iran rejects reports it plans to house Afghan asylum-seekers expelled from Pakistan

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An Iranian official has denied reports that a UN authority had announced Afghan asylum-seekers expelled from Pakistan would be housed in Iran.
Security

Iran says to organize Afghan migrants to allay public concerns

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An Iranian parliamentarian says a program is underway to organize the presence of Afghan refugees in the country.
Security

Iranian minister: Illegal migrants to be extradited

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Iran says it will follow a stricter agenda to extradite illegal foreign migrants, a vast majority of them Afghans, to their home countries and will make the arrangements to organize the legal arrivals.
Human Rights

UN hails Iran’s services to Afghan refugees

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The United Nations has admired Iran, as the second largest host of refugees in the world, for its health services to Afghan refugees and has promised support for the future efforts.
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