November 19, 2023
Iran has returned 450,000 irregular migrants, mostly Afghans, since August
TEHRAN: At least 450,000 refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, without the necessary legal documents have been repatriated from Iran in the past three months, according to officials. Javad Hani, an official at Iran’s National Migration Organization (NMO), was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA news agency on Saturday that the repatriation of irregular migrants was underway. He said the deportees had “illegally entered” the country and their repatriation was being carried out in eight provinces under a “comprehensive plan”. Khani, who heads the NMO department dealing with undocumented refugees, said Tehran, Sistan and Baluchistan, Razavi Khorasan, Qom, Kerman, Yazd, Fars


