Iran wants Afghan refugees to leave by 2010

[TexasLawyer]

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Iran wants Afghan refugees to leave by 2010

TEHRAN: Iran is stepping up efforts to encourage its two million-strong community of Afghan refugees to finally return home by 2010, the country’s top immigration official has said.

Tehran’s aim remains to repatriate all Afghan refugees who fled the wars that devastated their country, currently 950,000 registered refugees along with a similar estimated number of illegals, Ahmad Hosseini told AFP.

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Millions of Afghans, mostly Shiite Hazara or Sunni Persian-speaking Tajiks, fled to the relative security of Iran from the wars that devastated their country from the Soviet invasion to the Taliban.

At the peak, Iran was hosting around four million Afghans.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C11%5C09%5Cstory_9-11-2006_pg4_21

[AlCzervik]

1. well Iran should stop using them as cheap labor then. sound familiar?

hmm, these 2 administrations have much in common.