{"id":23583,"date":"2024-09-17T04:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=23583"},"modified":"2024-09-17T06:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T06:10:15","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-afghan-migrants-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/pressure-mounts-on-afghan-migrants-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts on Afghan migrants in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; A number of Afghan migrants in Iran say that with the rise in anti-migrant sentiment in the country, both documented and undocumented migrants are being expelled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ferdows, an Afghan migrant in Iran, said that pressures on Afghan migrants have intensified in recent months. &#8220;Even those with passports are unable to travel; the office that renews passports is currently closed. If the police catch us, they either expel us or demand money. If we don&#8217;t pay, they beat us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aziz, another Afghan migrant in Iran, says that Afghans are living in fear of arrest these days. &#8220;If the police catch us, they beat us; if we pay money, they release us; otherwise, they expel us. There is no place left for Afghans anywhere in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These Afghan migrants add that they came to Iran due to the lack of job opportunities in Afghanistan, and now working in Iran has also become difficult for them.<\/p>\n<p>Hadiya, who migrated to Iran after completing her bachelor&#8217;s degree, expressed concern about the increasing pressures in the country. &#8220;I studied in Afghanistan and came to Iran to find work, but life here has become very tough, and pressures are increasing with each passing day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ali Reza Deliri, the police commander of Sistan and Balochestan, recently stated that in the past seven days, 1,494 migrants have been detained in these two provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Tasnim news agency reported on Monday that these migrants are citizens of various countries.<\/p>\n<p>Talebi Mohammadzai, an expert on migration issues, says that increasing pressure on Afghan migrants is not a solution, and the problem must be addressed through diplomatic means. &#8220;Two million undocumented migrants are living in Iran; if they face forced expulsion, it will be challenging for both countries. This concern should be resolved by addressing the issue of unemployment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has also announced that in the first week of September, 50,639 Afghan nationals have traveled back from Iran and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; A number of Afghan migrants in Iran say that with the rise in anti-migrant sentiment in the country, both documented and undocumented migrants are being expelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,16,233,31,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-report","category-iran","category-migration","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":60,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23597,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23583\/revisions\/23597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}