Iran expels 500,000 Afghan in less than 16 days

A report presented by the United Nations (UN) points out that Iran, in less than 16 days, expelled more than 500,000 Afghan in the country, which can configure one of the largest forced people in the decade.

For months the Islamic regime has declared its intention to remove the millions of indocmented imposed from Iran – these, who perform poorly paid work across the country, often under precarious conditions.

The International Organization for Migration (IM) states that 508,426 Afghans left Iran by the Afghanistan border between June 24 and July 9.

According to the 33,956 Afghan organization, they crossed the border last Wednesday; 30,635, on Tuesday, all after a peak of 51,000 last Friday, before the deadline of Sunday imposed by the Iranian government for the departure of indocmented citizens.

The deportations, part of a program announced by Iran in March, were massively increased since the 12 -day war with Israel, fueled by rumors that Afghans would have spied on and contributed to the enemy during the attacks. However, few evidence arose to support the allegations that Afghans would be assisting Israel. Lack of evidence has led critics to suggest that Iran is simply fulfilling a longstanding ambition, whose goal is to reduce its Afghan illegal population, diverting internal tensions in a vulnerable minority.

Return conditions are precarious, with temperatures up to 40 ° C, and the migrant reception centers on the Afghanistan border face difficulties.

In an interview with CNN InternationalBashir, about twenty, said that in Islam Qala, a border city in western Afghanistan, was arrested by police in Tehran and taken to a detention center where he was beaten.

“First, they took 10 million Tomans (about R $ 1,115) from me. Then they sent me to the detention center, where I was arrested for two nights and forced me to pay another 2 million (R $ 558). At the detention center, we did not give us food or drinking water. There were about 200 people there, and they beat us and abused us,” he said.

Parisa, 11, who was accompanied by the family, said she could not attend school again in case of return to Afghanistan – due to the restrictions of the Taliban.

“We spent six years in Iran before they sent us to ask for the letter of departure and leave Iran,” he said. “We had a legal document from the census, but they told us to leave Iran immediately.”

The sudden and massive increase in deportations and allegations of Afghan espionage resulted in international convictions. UN’s special rapporteur for Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, published in the X This weekend that: “Hundreds of Afghans and members of ethnic and religious minorities detained in Iran, accused of ‘espionage’. There are also reports of incitement to discrimination and violence in the media, labeling minority affects and communities as traitors and using dehumanizing language.”

“We always strive to be good hosts, but national security is a priority and, of course, illegal citizens should return,” said Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani, on July 1, according to Reuters.

The state media, contributing to the government’s narrative, showed images of an alleged Afghan “spy” that worked for Israel. In the images, the alleged traitor confessed to working for another Afghan who was based on Germany.

“This person contacted me and said he needed information about certain places,” says the alleged spy. “He ordered some places, and I provided them. I also received $ 2,000 of it.” The report did not identify the alleged spy nor had evidence to support the allegation.