Iran Expels Dozens of Afghans Daily

More than four to eight hundred Afghans are expelled from Iran daily, and they say that Iran’s police treat them in an inhuman and humiliating way.Iranian police have hit the Afghan refugees and, in some cases, have opened fire against them. Some Afghans get killed and injured, and the police carry the dead up to the Afghan border.The Iranian government has imposed restriction on Afghan refugees for years in order to make them return to their country, but lack of security and occupational opportunities in Afghanistan has caused them to not return to their country.
“We track these cases in Iran, but we cannot secure the political relationship of the two countries because it is up to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” said provincial governor Ghulam Dastagir.
Eviction and annoyance on the side of the Afghan refugees from Iran come as senior Iranian officials have called Afghans their brother and friend during trips to Kabul. During these trips, the Afghan government also emphasized the need to improve the relationship between Iran and Afghanistan.