Afghan Refugees
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Pakistan expels over 15,000 Afghan refugees
TEHRAN, Nov. 03 (MNA) – Afghanistan’s Commission of Refugee Affairs announced that Pakistan has forcibly expelled more than 15,000 Afghan refugees through three border crossings.
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Iran urges greater global support in hosting Afghan refugees
TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) – Iran called on the international community to share more of the responsibility for hosting millions of Afghan refugees, warning that the burden on the country has become unsustainable.
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Only 15% of Afghan refugees deported from Iran: Labor min.
TEHRAN, Jul. 14 (MNA) – Iran has deported just a fraction of Afghan refugees over he past few weeks, according to a senior government official responsible for labor issues.
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Legal Afghan migrants in Iran face no restrictions
TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – Iran's UN Ambassador says that legal Afghan migrants in Iran face no restrictions, and Iranian consulates issue 5,000 visas daily.
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Iran urges coop. with Afghanistan to resolve refugee issue
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) – The caretaker of Iran's embassy in Kabul says Tehran and Kabul need to take joint measures to solve the issue of Afghan refugees given cordial relations between the two neighboring countries.
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Tehran, Kabul confer on extradition of Afghan prisoners
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) – Amir Khan Muttaqi, Taliban's acting foreign minister, has said that the interim government of Afghanistan is committed to cooperating with the Islamic Republic of Iran to extradite Afghan prisoners to their country.
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Germany deports first group of Afghan refugees
TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) – Germany on Friday said it carried out the first deportation of Afghans back to their home country since Taliban authorities took power in August 2021, as Berlin faces pressure to crack down on migration.
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Iran offers cooperation with Japan over Afghanistan
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) – Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-َbdollahian expressed Iran’s readiness to work with Japan on joint projects on the improvement of situation in Afghanistan.
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Iran vaccinates over 3,000 foreign nationals in S Khorasan
TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (MNA) – Some 3,300 foreign nationals have been immunized against measles, mumps, and rubella in Iran’s eastern province of South Khorasan, close to the border with Afghanistan, according to a provincial health official.
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Iran home to more than 5mn refugees despite sanctions: min.
TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) – The Iranian interior minister said that Iran shelters over five million refugees, despite being under tough sanctions imposed by Western governments.
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Iran 2nd biggest refugee-hosting country: UN official
TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) – Hosting 3.4 million refugees, Iran has been recognized as the second largest refugee-hosting country in the world after Turkey, head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Mashhad said.
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Iran hands over 268 Afghan inmates to Afghanistan
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) – Taliban Foreign Ministry announced that 268 Afghanistan citizens who were imprisoned in Iran were extradited from Iran to Afghanistan.
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Iran approves residency permits for 1 million Afghan refugees
TEHRAN, Jan. 05 (MNA) – Iran’s Interior Ministry says it has approved residency permits for more than one million Afghan refugees living in the country.
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Iran calls on human rights claimants to host Afghan refugees
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (MNA) – Saying that Iran and its neighboring countries are not the only countries that should be responsible for hosting Afghan refugees, Iran's permanent envoy to the UN called on human rights claimants to accept Afghan refugees too.
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Taliban delegation visit Tehran for immigrants issues
TEHRAN, Dec. 11 (MNA) – A delegation of Taliban officials arrived in Tehran to attend a quadrilateral meeting that is slated to be held jointly by Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Iran raps inattention of intl. bodies to Afghan immigrants
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) – The Director-General of the Iranian Foreign Ministry for Consular Affairs criticized at the inattention of the international institutions to the issue of Afghan immigrants who are living in Iran.
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Iran raps UN's lack of humanitarian aid to Afghan immigrants
TEHRAN, Sep. 27 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian criticized the UN’s lack of offering humanitarian assistance to the Afghan immigrants living in Iran.