Ministry rejects report of Afghan refugees ejection

Meanwhile, the Iranian foreign ministry has rejected an Amnesty International claim of compulsory repatriation of Afghan refugees living in Iran, and criticised what it called Amnesty’s “one-sided attitude.” The Iranian IRNA news agency quoted a ministry officials as saying that Iran’s hosting of some two million Afghan refugees for a long period of time under sensitive and critical conditions, was an indication of its goodwill, the official said.

Amnesty’s claim that Iran was forcibly repatriating Afghan refugees could be considered “as a move to distort the realities and to play down the humanitarian aid being rendered by the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Afghan nation,” IRNA quoted the official as saying.