Iran official says Afghan migrant crisis hinges on border control
Babaei said Iran’s Ministry of Interior had taken major steps over the past year to regulate the presence of foreign.
Babaei said Iran’s Ministry of Interior had taken major steps over the past year to regulate the presence of foreign.
Both Iran and Pakistan have intensified expulsions of undocumented Afghans in recent months.
Iranian officials said that all those detained were identified, arrested, and deported immediately after crossing the border.
Iranian state media also reported a sharp increase in returns through the Dogharoon border in Khorasan Razavi.
At Spin Boldak in Kandahar province, 2,279 people from 424 families were registered.
A week earlier, Pakistan had deported 32,064 Afghans, while Iran expelled 9,020 during the same period.
“Those who have legal identity documents will certainly be registered,” Parsa said.
The closures are part of a government program to return more than 1.3 million Afghans holding Proof of Registration (PoR).
Some families later managed to bring the victims’ remains back into Afghanistan, the sources said.
They were admitted under a special program for Afghans who had worked with German institutions.