As the process of deporting Afghan migrants from Iran intensifies, Iranian officials say that in the past week, more than 120,000 people have entered Afghanistan from Iran, both forcibly and voluntarily.<\/p>\n
The district governor of Taybad in Iran says that nearly 8,000 undocumented Afghan citizens enter Afghanistan daily through the Dogharun border alone.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, some deported immigrants say they left all their assets in Iran and were forced to return home empty-handed.<\/p>\n
Hossein Jamshidi, the district governor of Taybad, told Iranian media that in the past week alone, more than 95,000 undocumented citizens and about 25,000 documented migrants from all over Iran have been identified and returned to Afghanistan from this border.<\/p>\n
Dogharoon border is the largest crossing point for the deportation of Afghan migrants from Iran. Every day, thousands of migrants, most of whom were living in Iran without documents, are now transported in large convoys, in dozens of passenger buses from all over Iran, to this border point zero.<\/p>\n
But in this side of the border!<\/strong><\/p>\n But on this side of the border, at the Islam Qala crossing, thousands of people, including women and children, are standing in long lines in the scorching sun, wearing only a few layers of clothing, waiting to cross the border and enter Afghan territory.<\/p>\n Many of these migrants say they have nowhere to go and have been forced to leave all their belongings on the other side of the border, on Iranian soil, and return empty-handed.<\/p>\n The Taliban have called for the establishment of a \u201ccoordinated mechanism\u201d with the Iranian government for the return of refugees.<\/p>\n UN agencies have called for increased financial assistance following the significant expulsion of Afghan refugees from neighboring countries.<\/p>\n The Norwegian government has expressed concern about the deportation of migrants in recent days and has allocated nearly $1 million to support them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the process of deporting Afghan migrants from Iran intensifies, Iranian officials say that in the past week, more than 120,000 people have entered Afghanistan from Iran, both forcibly and voluntarily. The district governor of Taybad in Iran says that nearly 8,000 undocumented Afghan citizens enter Afghanistan daily through the Dogharun border alone. Meanwhile, some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1529,1563,1530,5900,1291,11063,1562],"class_list":["post-10269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middleeast","tag-border","tag-deportation","tag-forces","tag-funds","tag-governments","tag-legal-stay-document","tag-refugee"],"yoast_head":"\n