Iran deported 5,00,000 Afghans in 16 Days

Tehran (Iran) – In March 2025, Iran announced that all illegal Afghan migrants must leave the country by 6th July 2025 or they would be forcibly deported. Following this announcement, in just over two weeks since Iran’s conflict with Israel came to an uneasy halt, more than half a million Afghans have crossed into Afghanistan from Iran, a staggering human tide that the UN has called one of the largest forced movements of people in recent years.

🇮🇷 Iran deports 5 lakh illegal Afghan migrants in just 16 days; that’s 30,000 per day! 🚍🚫

If Iran can protect its internal security, why can’t 🇮🇳 India take firm action against illegal Bangladeshis & Rohingyas? ❓

By year-end, Iran & Pakistan may expel 30 lakh Afghans! ⚠️… pic.twitter.com/aBaG59kRIS

— Sanatan Prabhat (@SanatanPrabhat) July 12, 2025

By the end of the year, 30 lakh Afghans will be expelled from Iran and Pakistan

30 lakh Afghans could return to their country this year, a UN refugee official said Friday, warning that the repatriation flow is placing intense pressure on an already major humanitarian crisis.

Iran and Pakistan have introduced new policies affecting displaced Afghans, with Tehran already having given four million “illegal” Afghans until July 6 to leave Iranian territory.

“What we are seeing is the undignified, disorganized and massive exodus of Afghans from both countries, which is generating enormous pressures on the homeland that is willing to receive them and yet utterly unprepared to do so,” the UNHCR representative in Afghanistan, Arafat Jamal, said during a video press conference from Kabul.