“From a total of 16.182 million school pupils in the country, some 700,000 are studying in the schools as foreign nationals,” Majid Abdollahi, a deputy head of the Organization for Development, Renovation and Equipping Schools (DRES) of Iran, said on Thursday.
Abdollahi made the announcement while speaking on the IRNA on the sidelines of a ceremony to open a special school for foreigners in the western province of Ilam on the border with Iraq.
He said Afghans account for a majority of foreign students in Iranian schools, adding that most of those students are concentrated in provinces of Razavi Khorasan, Qom, Semnan, Fars and Sistan and Baluchestan in northeast, center, south and southeast of Iran.
The official went on to say that DRES will continue to use its resources to build special schools for foreign nationals in accordance with guidelines of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).
The UNHCR and DRES have jointly funded the construction of the school for foreign students that was opened on Wednesday in the provincial capital of Ilam.
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