Earlier this month, an Iranian Foreign Minister first took over the Taliban power in August 2021. According to Iranian officials, the one -day visit to Abbas Argchi’s Afghan capital Kabul was intended to have diplomatic talks about stress. On the shared border of the two countries, which is about 950 kilometers (about 590 mi) long, the status of Afghan refugees in Iran, and the use of water resources in the Helmond River, which flows from Afghanistan to Iran.
Although Iran has not yet recognized the Taliban government, it maintains diplomatic relations with Afghanistan. The Iranian embassy in Kabul is open, as is the though the throat in the Iranian capital Tehran.
Since the migration from Afghanistan in Iran has increased, Tehran is demanding more cooperation with the Taliban in Kabul. Iran is currently sending 3,000 refugees to Afghanistan a day earlier.
Fear of returning to Taliban Afghanistan
“Afghans are being randomly arrested, sometimes beaten, and then exile,” for Margia Raimi, Afghan, who fled to Iran with his family two years ago, had DW to DW told. “I am a journalist and worked in a professional for 10 years. When the Taliban returned, I was unemployed. My life was suddenly gymnastics. I was afraid of myself and my family. Was banned.
Rahimi currently does not have any documents: he did not register as a refugee for fear of being deported. She would have to go to the bureau for the affairs of aliens and a fare -based immigrants to apply for shelter, but she was reluctant: “Whoever tries to apply, is very bad and egoistic behaved. Is, even humiliation is hardly any chance of a stog account.
It is not clear how many Afghan Nationals, who have a bee migration, have been living in Iran, who have been in Iran, for the 40 years, and now the Taliban for 40 years. But the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that their number is about 3 million. Around 750,000 of them are officially registered as refugees and about 500,000 people are immigrant with short -term residence permits and/or restricted work permits.
Many others have no papers and are illegally in Iran. They often exploit, for example at construction sites on the outskirts of large cities or for very little wages in the company.
Refuggi anti-rafuji rhetoric in Iran
Amir Saeed Irawani, Iran’s Ambassador and permanent representative of the United Nations, said in December that “more than 6 million Afghans in Iran”, and it put a tension on the country’s limited resources. He complained that Iran’s annual cost was more than $ 10 billion (€ 9.6 billion) and did not have enough support from the international community.
The Iranian society is generally not particularly favorable to Afghans. Social networks have almost daily posts, as well as reports in traditional media, “criminal refugees” or the alleged burden on the health system, are blamed for the lack of subsidized foods in the form of bread.
But Iran has been suffering from an ongoing economic crisis over the years, which has been extended by mismanagement, corruption and international sanctions.
Margia Rahimi and his family did not get any support from the Iranian state. They found low-paying jobs, which are meant to feed the theme.
“We are committed to Afghans in Iran,” refugees and reimbursement of Afghan Minister Abdul Rahman Rashid told DW. “Refugees must have access to education and opportunities to legally work in Iran. We have interacted with Iranian officials. We support the returns coming to Afghanistan.”
Afghanistan is not ready to return to refugees
It is not known what resources are there for this support. Jana Agelland, General Secretary of Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), for independent humanitarian Organizations helping the organization to escape and still one of the few international NGOs active in Afghanistan, warned that Afghanistan is not ready to return several refugees from Iran, and therefore Pakistan.
In response to a DW inquiry, the Norwegian refugee council wrote that on a visit to Afghanistan, Jana Ageland met the family with young children who know how they live from Iran without returning to the country from Iran. It said that economic insecurity and lack of employment opportunities were the biggest concern for many of those who had returned and did not know what the future heroes were.
The NRC said that the refugees with valid documents were not safe even in Iran, stating that some had already been deported, and the anticipation of being others was jumped. It states that many children born in Iran were “returning” in a country that they did not know.
This article was translated from German.
