Iran deports tens of thousands of refugees to Afghanistan

Iran’s Director General of the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs in Khorasan Razavi province, Hossein Sharafati Rad, has announced that 90,000 Afghan nationals have been deported since March.

According to the Iranian state news agency IRNA, these refugees arrived in Afghanistan through the Islam Qala— Dogharoun border between Herat and Mashhad cities.