Accusations Of Iranian Afghans Spying for Israel: Afghan Evacuation Accelerates
Iran has stepped up efforts to send Afghans back to their homeland after the 12-day war with Israel, in view of which thousands of Afghans are being evacuated from Iran.
According to a foreign news agency, 31-year-old Afghan woman Habiba, who escaped the Taliban regime and went to Iran to study for a master’s degree in engineering, was sent back to Afghanistan in July last month when she was just about to complete her studies.
During an interview at the Afghan border post, Afghan citizen Habiba told ‘international media’ that she was just a few steps away from obtaining a degree, her thesis was about to be completed when everything was over.
Habiba said that upon her return to her homeland, she was left with only a laptop and educational documents, and now she is forced to start life again in her country, Afghanistan, under the Taliban rule, where women are not even allowed to go to high school, let alone university.
Crackdown on Afghans in Iran
According to the Reuters news agency, Iran has intensified its crackdown on Afghan refugees in recent weeks.
On the other hand, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), about 700,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran since the beginning of June.
According to the news agency, Iranian authorities have described the Afghans as illegal immigrants, but the affected Afghan citizens reject this claim.
According to Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, one million people have left the country “voluntarily” since March, and 70 percent have returned on their own.
The situation has worsened since the Israel-Iran war
The expulsion of Afghans intensified after the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June. After the war, Iran has been sending back more than 30,000 Afghans a day, which is 15 times higher than the 2,000 a day before the war.
The foreign news agency claims that Iranian authorities have made serious allegations against Afghans, such as spying for Israel, which Iranian officials later dismissed as “media reports” and dismissed as a minor matter.
On the other hand, Nader Yar Ahmadi, an advisor to the Iranian Ministry of Interior, told local media that in March this year, the temporary census cards of about 2 million Afghan citizens were canceled and they were given until July to leave the country.
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