HEART CITY (Pajhwok): Iran forcibly expelled more than 100,000 Afghans into western Herat province last solar year, local officials said on Sunday.
Ahmad Javid Naadem, Herat’s refugees and repatriation director, told Pajhwok Afghan News in an interview that Iran started forcibly deporting Afghan refugees through Nimroz port in late January.
Calling the Nimroz route as difficult for refugees to commute, he said: “In the past, Iran would expel 1,500 to 2,000 Afghan refugees annually with 70 percent of them from western provinces . . .
