Immigrants

Finland ready to cooperate with Iran on refugee issues: Envoy

Tehran, IRNA – Finnish Ambassador to Tehran Yani Johannes Rayana has announced his country's readiness to continue cooperation with Iran on issues related to refugees, saying there is a need to establish positive bilateral relations to reach appropriate solutions to the problem.
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Iran might revise immigration policy: Official

Tehran, IRNA - Iran will reconsider its immigration policies if the international community fails to shoulder its share of the burden of hosting the refugees, an Iranian official said.
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Taliban welcomes return of migrants to Afghanistan

Tehran, IRNA – Afghanistan's Acting Minister of Refugees and Repatriation, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, has said that his country welcomes the return of migrants to Afghanistan.
2 months ago
UN official hails Iran’s “exemplary” services to immigrants

Shiraz, IRNA – Lalini Veerasamy, who heads the UN International Organization for Migration’s office in Tehran, has hailed Iran’s services to immigrants as exemplary.
6 months ago
Iran not to tolerate presence of unauthorized immigrants: Senior official

Tehran, IRNA – Head of the Iranian National Immigration Organization Abdollah Mobini has said that the country will not tolerate the presence of unauthorized immigrants.
9 months ago
Iran urges Afghanistan to expedite repatriation of illegal immigrants

Tehran, IRNA – Tehran has urged Kabul to expedite the sustainable repatriation of illegal Afghan immigrants from Iran.
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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.
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Iran to set up major government department for immigrants

Tehran, IRNA – Iran's Seventh Development Plan has commissioned the Interior Ministry of the country to establish a national immigration organization to help streamline affairs related to a growing number of immigrants arriving in the country.
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Iran shoulders heaviest burden of refugees: Official

Tehran, IRNA – Iran is shouldering the weightiest burden among the countries in the region regarding refugees, based on Islamic and humane standards, the special envoy on Afghanistan said.
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527k foreign national children attend Iranian schools

Tehran, IRNA – Over 527,000 foreign national children study in Iranian schools, most of whom are from Afghanistan and others include children from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq, and other countries, according to a senior Education Ministry official.
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Iranian government plans to set up refugees organization

Tehran, IRNA - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Thursday that forming refugees organization is on the agenda of the government.
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Ex-lawmaker says expansion of Iran-Afghanistan trade ties is necessary

Tehran, IRNA – Former member of Afghan parliament said that the current situation necessitates expansion of trade ties between Iran and Afghanistan.
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Officials of Int'l immigration bodies visit Mashhad, Iran

Mashhahd, IRNA – The new head of Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) in Iran headed a group of five officials from international immigration organizations on a visit to Mashhad to discuss the situation of Afghan immigrants.
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Iran has shouldered Afghan immigrant burden alone: Official

Mashhad, IRNA – An immigration official in Razavi Khorasan Province, northeastern Iran said that the world was overlooking the reality in Afghanistan in a way that Iran has been the only country to keep receiving Afghan immigrants.
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