Iran has “sent back” at least 90,000 migrants from Afghanistan over the past three months, Iranian authorities said.
The general director of the migrants’ office in Khorasan Razavi province, which borders Herat province in Afghanistan, said the migrants returned voluntarily. However, human right activists said that many of the migrants had been deported “forcefully and violently.”
“They were faced with two big problems: lack of a fair life in Iran and lack of employment opportunities in their own country. Given this, they have decided to return to their country no matter what happens to them,” said Dr. Khorshid, a former Afghanistan diplomat in Iran.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghanistan nationals left for Iran after the fall of the previous government in mid-August 2021.
