‘Come Home only to Be Exiled Again’: Deported Afghans Return as Outsiders in Their Own Country

‘Come home only to be exiled again’: Deported Afghans return as outsiders in their own country

Since late 2023, an estimated three million Afghans have been forced out of Iran and Pakistan, with numbers surging since Israeli strikes.

Iran Intensifies Deportations of Afghan Refugees in Wake of Israel Conflict - Iran News Update

Mass expulsions continue amid allegations of mistreatment, scapegoating, and systemic discrimination Following the 12-day war between Iran and Israel, the Iranian regime has significantly escalated its campaign of arrests and deportations targeting Afghan refugees. Despite earlier claims that wartime conditions might delay such efforts, the Iranian Interior Ministry has confirmed that the crackdown continued throughout the conflict and has since…

Mass Afghan Deportations from Iran Intensify Ahead of Deadline – Pashto News and Current Affairs Channel

Thousands of Afghan nationals are being forced out of Iran in a mass deportation drive. A senior Iranian official has confirmed that over 70 percent of undocumented Afghan migrants are being expelled against their will. Ahmad Masoumifar, who heads the Foreign Ministry’s office in northeast Iran, said the majority of the recent Afghan deportations were not voluntary. On Monday, June 30, he revealed that during the week from June 22 to June 28—cor…

Iran says it has deported 500,000 Afghan migrants

TEHRAN — Iranian authorities have deported nearly 500,000 undocumented Afghan migrants since the start of the current solar year in late March, according to Nader Yar-Ahmadi, head of Iran’s Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs. Speaking during a visit to the Dogharoun border crossing on Wednesday, Yar-Ahmadi said that migrants were identified and removed from across Iran and returned via the border points at Milak and Dogharoun. He e…