Refugees and Immigrants

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Local

Iran sets new rules for Afghan workers, allows 9-month employment period

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Iran’s Interior Ministry has announced new regulations governing the employment of foreign workers, particularly Afghan nationals, allowing them to work in Iran for nine months under a formal work visa before returning to Afghanistan for a three-month period.
Local

Iran says 2 million undocumented Afghan migrants must leave, denies racism claims 

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Iran’s Minister of Interior, Eskandar Momeni, announced that approximately 800,000 undocumented Afghan migrants have left the country since the beginning of the Persian calendar year in mid-March. 
Security

Iran’s prosecutor general: Illegal migrants must all leave 

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Iran’s Prosecutor General Mohammad Movahedi Azad has said undocumented foreign nationals, particularly Afghans, must leave the country immediately.
Security

Tehran struggles under the weight of internal migration, new report finds

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A new report by the Tehran Municipality’s Center for Studies and Planning reveals that decades of centralized development and neglect of peripheral regions have turned the Iranian capital, Tehran, into a magnet for internal migration at great cost, according to Shargh daily.
Local

Interior minister: Undocumented Afghan migrants taking jobs, burdening subsidy system

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Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, upon arrival in southeastern Kerman Province on Friday morning, stated that the number of undocumented migrants from neighboring Afghanistan in the province exceeds the national average, adding that their presence has strained job opportunities and government subsidies.
Foreign Policy

Iran’s interests section in Washington condemns deportation of Iranian nationals to Panama

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The Iranian Interests Section in Washington, D.C., has strongly criticized the US government for deporting a group of Iranian nationals to Panama without prior notification or consular access.
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

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 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.
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. 
Local

Iranian official sounds the alarm over migration rate

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Iranians have chosen to migrate during the past decades for several reasons, but the new trend is alarming, according to the head of a research center, who says “Iranians are now leaving just to stay away from Iran.”
Local

Iranian interior minister: Hundreds of thousands of refugees deported

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Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi says Tehran has deported some 400 thousand illegal migrants to their own countries.
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.
Local

Iranian migration observatory: Iran tops global immigration rates

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In a groundbreaking revelation, Bahram Salvati, Director of the Iranian Migration Observatory, uncovered Iran's unprecedented status as the world's leading source of immigrants.
Middle East

Turkey police launch shadow campaign to deport immigrants and refugees

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Turkey has set up a silent campaign to reduce the number of refugees and migrants within its borders, including Syrians.
Europe

UNICEF says 11 children die every week attempting to cross Mediterranean migration route

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During the first half of the current year, 289 boys and girls died while crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, or double the number compared to the same period in 2022, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced.
Human Rights

Official: Iran destination for some 63% of Afghan refugees

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The Iranian deputy justice minister says the Islamic Republic is the top destination of around 63 percent of Afghan refugees fleeing a host of crises in their homeland.
Local

Academic: Up to 10% of Iran’s population emigrated due to ‘social upheavals’

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An Iranian academic claims that between 8 to 10 percent of the country’s entire population has emigrated to other countries, most of whom have been professionals and scientists.
Foreign Policy

Taliban delegates in Iran for talks on situation of Afghan migrants

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A delegation with Afghanistan’s caretaker Taliban government has visited Iran for talks with relevant officials on the situation of Afghan migrants and refugees in the country.
Local

Official: Brain drain in Iran escalating into general immigration

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The rate of migration by Iranians has increased 1.5 times in recent years. That’s according to the head of the immigration observatory of Iran.
Human Rights

UNHCR official: Iran providing Afghan refugees with all facilities

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An official with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) praises Iran for warmly hosting Afghan refugees in the country and providing them, particularly their children, with all facilities, including education.
Local

Migration Observatory: Iran facing mass migration

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Iran Migration Observatory, which offers statistics on the rate of migration from the country, says emigration from Iran is currently just limited to the elite.
Education

Education minister: Iran scrambling to meet immigrants’ needs

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Iran has earmarked more funds to fit the immigrant students, whose number is getting close to the one million mark, into the country’s education system, the Iranian education minister says.
Local

Iran interior minister: Foreigners without IDs should return home

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Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi says it is illegal for foreign nationals to remain on Iranian soil, and that those foreigners who do not possess the required legal documents must return to their home countries.
Healthcare

Iran rolls out free measles vaccination for Afghan, Pakistani migrants

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Iran’s Health Ministry says all legal and illegal migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan in Iran, can vaccinate their children against preventable diseases free of charge.
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