KABUL, 09 April 2022, (TON): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said “it has summoned diplomats of the Iran embassy in Kabul to share concerns about the situation of Afghan refugees in Iran.”

A MoFA statement said “the second deputy political minister of political affairs of the Foreign Ministry, Faizanullah Nasiri, met officials from the embassy of Iran in Kabul and discussed the misconduct of the Iranian border forces with the Afghan refugees.”

According to the ministry “the Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation said that more than 2,200 Afghan refugees were deported by Iran in the last day and the number of Afghan deportees by Iran surpassed 14,000 last week.”

Sayed Abas Badrifar, Iran embassy’s press counselor said “around seven to eight million Afghan nationals went to Iran. The Afghan government should facilitate an environment so the people (Afghans) will not go to Iran.”

A deportee said “I went there and saw that the Iranian citizens and government were misbehaving with the us and I was forced to come back to my country.”