Why has Iran stepped up its deportation of Afghan refugees?

Why has Iran stepped up its deportation of Afghan refugees?

Hundreds are being pressured to return to Afghanistan as Tehran tightens controls on immigration.

For many years, tens of hundreds of Afghans – who’ve fled struggle and poverty and sought a greater future – have crossed into neighbouring Iran.

Tehran has largely been lenient in direction of members of this neighborhood. However in recent times, Iranians appear to have grown uninterested in internet hosting them – and sentiment in direction of overseas nationals has hardened.

The Iranian authorities has responded by expelling undocumented folks. These being pressured out haven’t any alternative however to return to the nation they escaped from.

Whereas the Taliban authorities is welcoming returning Afghans, what sort of life awaits them, and what can the worldwide neighborhood do to assist?

Presenter:

James Bays

Friends:

Arafat Jamal – Afghanistan consultant of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Orzala Nemat – Activist for the rights of Afghan ladies and director of the Growth Analysis Group,  a UK-based consultancy

Hassan Ahmadian – Assistant professor of West Asian Research on the College of Tehran

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