Public sentiment regarding the mass deportations of Afghans from Iran is strikingly polarized. A significant portion of comments express deep sympathy for the Afghans facing deportation, viewing these actions as inhumane and unjust, particularly given their historical contributions to Iranian society. Opposing opinions cite national security concerns as justification for the deportations, with some commenters expressing feelings of betrayal towards those Afghans perceived as spies. The resulting discourse reflects a complex interplay of empathy, frustration, and nationalism, leading to a generally negative sentiment overall.

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As an Iranian I'm really sorry for what have the situation brought upon us and for the misbehaviour by some , i really hope and wish you to be well and may god help for better times 🙏🏻

Kian_ebrahimi

Cultural-Tourist-917

why muslims are expelling muslims , is this ummah brotherhood

Effective_Mousse_594

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Could anyone tell me the context and what’s happening as I’m quite unaware of the deporting in Iran and Pakistan??

Mysterious_Scar_2793

Thankfully we are gonna do the same in Europe here soon!

Mack5775

I’m impressed by this sub , our Pakistani sub is acting so dehumanizing to our Afghan brothers and sisters who are being deported and not seeing them as anything more than criminals and welfare moochers. Pakistanis could learn a thing or two about shared humanity I read of coddling the balls of our military dictators god kings and always following the one party line.

SyedHRaza

All Afghans or just pashtuns? Are hazaras allowed to stay because they're Shia and persecutedby the taliban?

thejuggernauts

33 day old account?? 
Why do these inflammatory articles and discussions always come from burner accounts?? 
Hmmmm 🧐🧐

Glass_Sweet4414

I wonder why those Afghans left their country? Could it be due to Western Imperialism? 🤔

D3Masked

That's more than a decade's worth of deportations for the US for comparison for a country with around 20% of the US population.

HugsForUpvotes

pretty interesting how this post has such low engagement here. it's almost as if the whole sub is usually amplified by Iranian psy ops...

veilosa

Our dear gentlemen, here we present the solidarity among Muslim countries and the Ummah.

Only an willfully ignorant fool will believe anything that comes from the mouths of Islamists and everyone who brings religion into politics and state policy.

It's time for us Muslims and Arabs to retire those ideas to the trash and move forward.

bahhaar-blts

Is it not more likely that people are leaving Iran due to the impending war with the USA and Israel?

The only sources shown in the article is western UN migration data - that's not even journalism or useful analysis - it's just narrative control in action 

So which is it? People terrified of more missile strikes from US/Israel, and are leaving Iran ? Or is Iran just evil?

Are mass deportations suddenly an evil/bad thing to do? Because last I checked, the US are deporting hundreds of *illegals* too, without any deadline

I'm sure if you looked at numbers of people leaving Israel (due to the same conflict) you could assume people are being *mass* deported there as well - where is that story?

What a joke

The rest of the article is that fake narrative about the west actually giving a shit about womens rights in the middle east - the same kind of bullshit we saw before the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. I am no longer shocked at the western media's attitudes towards the middle east before commiting to war - are we really going to fall for this bullshit all over again?


Mods please clean up this mess. Its unitednations , not ~~cia propaganda~~ r/worldnews

Edit:This user is barely a month old - mods can we please stop letting bots like this one post here? its starting to look like r/worldnews here with articles like this.

I also sharpened my point about the article being very misleading, with western propaganda throughout

Fyr5

Some 80% of those caught working for Mossad and CIA during the 12 days war were Afghan. Iran needs to throw out any Afghan, legal or not that came in the last few years. 
Ideology , most are Sunnis or wahabis, harbouring some hatred toward Shias. 
Iran has tried to work with Sunnis over and over again, and each time betrayed by them. Syria was the last sunni majority country to betray Iran. 
If Iran wants to survive, they need to take it seriously and kick out the afghans. Who knows how many of them weren't caught yet.
In one shop, some 300 afghans we're assembling drones for Israel and other places, were busy building tunnels toward military sites.

timeloope

May God help them. Hopefully, the people of Afghanistan will rise and overturn the Taliban.

BarracudaMaster717

WeeklyEmu4838

Crap that's a lot of people. The religion of love and peace?

SystematicHydromatic

millions of people are suffering every year from islamic terrorism (like in the article), and yet, this community prefers to spend 99% of its time talking about the only “genocide” in human history in which the population only raises

Zealousideal_Air638

Where's the left at?? They're better be protesting this!

curious_wonderer30

Maybe they should hold protests while waving the flag of Afghanistan while assaulting Iranian law enforcement? It seems to be the accepted response to deportations. 

Colodanman357

wow what the fuck? i actually didn't know that iran was deporting undocumented ppl. i thought israel was apartheid settler colonialism war criming when they bombed iran, but they were actually bombing fascist nazis

freeman2949583

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*”Iran is home to an estimated 4 million Afghan migrants and refugees, and many have lived there for decades.”*

Huh, didn’t know Iran had that many Afghan refugees living inside its borders.

Khamvom

In 2023, Pakistan [evicted 1.1 million](https://tribune.com.pk/story/2437931/pakistan-to-evict-11m-illegal-afghan-refugees) Afghanis and that continues. Now millions must leave Iran.

CFCYYZ

llmcthinky

Just bad news for everybody everywhere. Damn.

Enough-Parking164

I wonder if this is Iran attempting to pull a level with Europe and create another refugee crisis

drtywater

Man those comments are bizarre. Anyways, I guess no one is talking about how this implies that Iran is concerned about getting Syria'd by Afghan.

OffTerror

Why can’t Europe get away with this and not Pakistan who deported a million. Are we a global society or are we global society limited to the west or anglosphere countries?

SunnyDayzd

Waiting for the pro-pal bots online to start protesting this Nakba

Sprozz

When Iran does it . You don't see the protests.

fernandogod12

Huh.. did Al-Jazeera quickly remove this story? Link is dead. It would make sense, but still disappointing to try and quiet this story...

mrpressydepress

Imagine we say that in Europe, the outrage…

XIIICaesar

fut_mbappe29

Wtf! I know Pakistan was terrible towards Afghani refugees and evicted over a million refugees 2 years ago, didn't expect this from Iran tho.

keval79

Where is the outrage and protests? I guess it doesn’t matter since Jews are not involved.. or at least haven’t been blamed for this yet.

gsk81

oursfort

2WhomAreYouListening

Is this how the religion treats themselves? Sorry, not a hate post.

Pegcitymb204

Oh no most of them will come to turkey and turn this place to shit alongside all the syrians and pakistanis. We can’t even see a turkish speaker on the streets bcs of the erdogans stupid refugee policies. People are sick of this refugees yet he turns our country into an immigrant bank

nanovirusguy

I can hear the protestors now... Oh wait, that's just tinnitus.

BigDaddyDumperSquad

This comment sections shows a main problem with contemporary thinking. 

Iran, Hamas, TrumpUSA and Israel can all be horrible. There doesn’t have to be a good or bad guy. There are plenty of bad guys—many of them in positions of power—and likewise many good (and bad) people under their oppression. 

It’s so much more complicated and often horrible than internet favouritism makes it seem.

erasedhead

They are building Manul Alcatraz (Pallas Cat)

Ok_Caterpillar8324

Penny_PackerMD

&gt; Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Tehran, said Afghans have increasingly been blamed for economic hardships, shortages and social issues in Iran.

Immigrants are scapegoats the entire world round.

RobutNotRobot

Iran really is all about pissing everyone off

PaleShadowNight

I’m sure this is going to create mass protests at Universities and Colleges throughout the western world

nus01

I'm so glad that a lot of these comments are from people who clearly do not live in Europe or have had no history lessons or any formal education in the matter to even have an opinion. Just hatred and ignorance. What a sad timeline thus has become.

StogeyBreak

So ethnic cleansing of millions of people... I wonder where all the protests against this are? Cause I don't think I have heard of any. 

And why isn't there a UN agency being created to help this specific group of refugees? Is there something that makes them less qualified than a certain other groups that has it's own agency?

shady8x

Will the pro pallys become pro afghan shias now?

Laminar_Flow5

One crisis after another, God help us all

happytrap69

So they're gonna try arresting 4.4 million people? Huh that's a bold statement

Ipracticemagic

agprincess

All complications of these situations aside,I feel terrible for Afghan people, especially the women. They can't seem to catch a break anywhere.

cydril

What're the chances this could spark an Iran/Afghan war???

kendogg

soysubstitute

Lots of clips like this these days. And comments are filled with Iranians calling for deportation.

Bear1375

miuipixel

Fuck Iran. As a Hazara, I have never understood why other Hazaras kneel down to Iran. Iranians are on the whole xenophobic and supremacist. They were never allies.

Awkward_Meeting8472

We need to disassociate from these people entirely. Both over there and in the diaspora.

Forget the shared culture, forget the shared history and forget the shared language.

These people absolutely despise us and I'll never get why some Afghans still call them "our brothers and sisters".

CommonBeach

As an Iranian this is fucked up, the anti-Afghan/Hazara sentiment is disgusting.

TabariKurd

cixcoprk

And they were all kids too. It makes you wonder what the hatred comes from. Mostly likely their parents and their controlled media. 

YungSwordsman

Optics on this is very bad. Longterm outlook on Iran and the region is unification - and stuff like this just makes that end game much harder. Mullahs don’t get it. Vision-less leadership. It’s my understanding that Afghans are also being deported from Pakistan and other places regionally (in similar brutal fashion) - in a ‘coordinated’ way. Wonder who is doing the coordination? Must be some larger scheme in place to destabilize the Taliban? If so, who is behind it?

ayatoilet

My Afghan cousins were born and raised in Iran and they still got treated like absolute dog shit, this video is proof that they are deep down racist and all love it

JobEnough3607

Turns out the governments of Iran, Israel, and the US all have something in common.

Sad the people of all 3 pay the price.

Popular-Jackfruit432

So much for the solidarity among Muslims and the Ummah. What a joke. Anyone who believed the Iranians on this was a fool.

Pakistan did this recently and it is fucking disgusting. Also, I'm Pakistani.

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Does anyone know if Afghan Shiites (mainly Hazaras) are being subjected to the same harsh measures as Sunni Afghan refugees?

Mundane_Stand4239

Didn’t they catch a bunch of afghans spying for mossad recently?

Iml8foreverything

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nikitapp0

Iran, following recent events (war and espionage activities), is deporting illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants are welcomed.

ConditionSmall5521

Hitnquit

Sloppykrab

The reason this is happening is because of the mercenaries hired by Mossad to carry out acts of terror.  

I am not making a value statement, just pointing out what precipitated this.  Its not random.

VajennaDentada

Afghans had an opportunity of a lifetime to introduce a strong democracy with freedoms. Instead they threw it away with corruption and a desire to oppress women and live in a theocratic anarchy. If the people who fled had stayed and fought, it would have been different.

haphazard_chore

I'm sure the pro terrorist lot will be hitting the streets any minute now to protest this ethnic cleansing, no?

Over 500,000 Afghans have been expelled from Iran in a short span, leading to humanitarian crises and abuses against deportees.

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