Iran, 1.03 Million Afghan Refugees Forced to Return to Their Home Country
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[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] It is reported that Iran has forcibly repatriated more than one million Afghan refugees who fled across the border back to their home country this year.
According to the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) on the 12th, more than 1.03 million refugees were expelled from Iran and returned to Afghanistan this year. In the last week of October (21?27), as many as 28,115 refugees were repatriated from Iran to Afghanistan.
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In August, with the Taliban's reoccupation of Kabul and the withdrawal of U.S. troops, the war in Afghanistan ended. However, the prevailing view is that the situation for Afghan residents has become more difficult than before the war.
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