Sediqullah Nasrat, the Taliban provincial director of refugee affairs in Nimroz province, announced that 37,193 people entered Afghanistan from Iran in January 2023. Nusrat added that "55 dead bodies" have also been transported from Iran to Afghanistan.
He added that these numbers include Afghans who have returned to Afghanistan voluntarily and those who have been forcibly sent back.
Earlier, Mohammad Sediqifar, the Consul General of Iran in Herat province, had said that six million Afghan refugees have been living in Iran.
According to Sediqifar, Iran has facilitated education for around one million Afghans in schools and 40,000 Afghans in higher education. He also stressed that thousands of Afghans have jobs in Iran and these are part of Iran’s support for Afghanistan.
However, published reports indicate that the Islamic Republic of Iran has forcibly deported a large number of Afghan citizens in the past year.
