Afghan refugees in Iran

2024-08-18 20:06

Iran to send back over 56,000 foreign nationals to their countries

TEHRAN- A local official has reported that a total of 56,356 foreign nationals have been repatriated to their home countries via the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan.

2024-01-26 14:31

WHO strengthens pre-hospital emergency response for Afghan refugees

TEHRAN - In a joint effort to support enhancing pre-hospital emergency response capacities in provinces hosting Afghan refugee populations, the World Health Organization (WHO), with the contribution of the Government of France, has donated three Hardtop 4x4 ambulances to the National Emergency Management Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NEMO).

2023-08-28 23:17

Taliban says Iran has never used Afghan refugees as political tool

TEHRAN – Spokesman for Taliban’s Ministry of Interior Affairs Abdul Matin Qani has said in a post on X that Iran has never tried to use Afghan refugees to assert political pressure despite having hosted millions of them for decades.

Hanifa providing education for Afghan refugee kids

2023-08-15 18:43

Photo: Bahman Vakhshour

Hanifa providing education for Afghan refugee kids

Hanifa is an unofficial school on the outskirts of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Afghan refugee kids who do not have migration documents can learn to read, write and do mathematics at Hanifa. They are also taught to dream big and envision a bright future for themselves.

2022-11-12 17:44

Iran still provides services to refugees despite sanctions: UNHCR

TEHRAN – Despite the sanctions and economic pressures, Iran continues its comprehensive policy of providing services to refugees, and this is appreciable, UNHCR’s Officer in Charge, Inna Gladkova, said.

2022-11-08 18:06

200,000 Afghan refugees eligible to study in Iranian schools

TEHRAN – The Ministry of Interior has announced to the Ministry of Education a list of 200,000 Afghan children who have the conditions to study in Iranian schools.

2022-10-14 17:42

Inadequate intl. aid makes providing services to refugees impossible

TEHRAN – With the continued allocation of insufficient international aid, it is very difficult and almost impossible for the Islamic Republic to continue providing services to refugees and unauthorized foreign nationals, the Iranian delegation at the 73rd meeting of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner for Refugees, said.

Significant increase in refugee literacy

2022-06-29 17:59

By Faranak Bakhtiari

Significant increase in refugee literacy

TEHRAN – The literacy rate among refugees has increased significantly in recent decades. So that the literacy rate of Afghan immigrants in Iran is higher than the number of literate people in Afghanistan, according to a report published in June by the research center of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis).

2022-06-27 18:23

Iran’s decent services to refugees are commendable: UNHCR

TEHRAN – Iran’s efforts and activities in the last 40 years have been commendable to refugees, and in the past year, after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, has reached its peak, Maha Kashour, head of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Mashhad, has stated.

2022-06-25 17:59

UNHCR holds World Refugee Day in Iran for first time since COVID-19

TEHRAN – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, marked World Refugee Day on Wednesday with a series of events across the Islamic Republic of Iran, under the theme of “Whoever, Wherever, Whenever, everyone has the right to seek safety”.