Earlier this month, the Iranian Foreign Minister traveled to Afghanistan for the first time in August 2021. According to Iranian officials, one day visit of Abbas Argchi was aimed at organizing diplomatic talks about tension on both countries’ 950 km (590 mi), 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 Afghan embassy 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.
Many migrants are afraid of returning to 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 foreign migrants to apply for shelter, but she said she was reluctant.
“Whoever tries to apply, is very bad and ego, even insulted. Finally, hardly there is hardly any chance to accept any opportunity.”
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 are 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, work for very little wages in the company at construction sites or on the outskirts of large cities.
Refuggi anti-rafuji rhetoric in Iran
Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Sayid Irawani said in December that “more than 6 million Afghans in Iran”, and it had 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 that there was not 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 the ongoing economic crisis for years, one who has increased by mismanagement, corruption and international sanctions.
Margia Rahimi and his family do not get any support from the Iranian state, and have been forced to find low -paid jobs.
“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
But it is not known what are the resources for this support. Jana Egland, General Secretary of Norwegian Refugee Council, for independent Humanitrian 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 investigation, the Norwegian refugee council wrote that on a visit to Afghanistan, Ageland met the family with young children who returned to the country from Iran without knowing how wild. 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 stated that refugees with valid documents were not safe in Iran, stating that some had already been deported, and others had deported the leaf in anticipation of begging. It states that many children born in Iran were “returning” in a country that they did not know.
This article was original in German.
