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Iran says number of Afghan refugees no more than 5 million

Sep 27, 2023, 1:00 PM
News ID: 85240584
Iran says number of Afghan refugees no more than 5 million

Tehran, IRNA - Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi has emphasized that the number of Afghan refugees in Iran are no more than 5 million a s he rejects other figures published in media reports.

Speaking to reporters on the sideline of a Cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Vahidi suggested that the official number of Afghan refugees in Iran may be even lower than 5 million. 

The minister said Iran seeks to create a processing refugees living in the country as he insisted that illegal immigrants should go back home. 

The Iranian government announced recently that it had launched a separate organization to process refugee issues. 

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