The governor of Tehran, Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian, reported a fourfold increase in the arrest of foreign nationals in Iran’s capital in recent days. Motamedian emphasized that the illegal presence of foreign nationals in Tehran is unacceptable.
Simultaneously, the Press Office of Herat province announced that over 30,000 Afghan migrants entered the province from Iran in a single day.
Regarding this issue, the Governor of Tehran stated: “With the implemented plans and inter-agency coordination, the process of identifying, arresting, and repatriating unauthorized foreign nationals is being pursued more vigorously, and we are witnessing a 3 to 4-fold increase in the arrest statistics of unauthorized foreign nationals compared to previous months.”
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that from June 1 to June 14, over 71,000 Afghan migrants have returned to Afghanistan from neighboring countries, especially Iran and Pakistan.
The organization also predicted that in the current year, over 1.6 million Afghan migrants will return from Pakistan and about two million more from Iran to Afghanistan.
The WHO stated that 71,673 individuals have returned to the country through five key border crossings from Pakistan, Iran, and other countries from June 1 to June 15, 2025. It is predicted that in 2025, two million people from Iran and 1,604,356 undocumented individuals from Pakistan will return to Afghanistan.
This comes as Iranian officials claim that the country is hosting over six million Afghan migrants.
The increase in the deportation of Afghan migrants from Iran is occurring while less than five days remain until the deadline set by Pakistan and less than 11 days until Iran’s deadline for Afghan migrants to leave the country.
