Public sentiment is largely negative regarding Iran's deportation of Afghan refugees, with significant frustration directed towards the Iranian government's actions and a feeling of sympathy for the vulnerable Afghans affected. Many commenters express disappointment at the lack of international support and criticize perceived humanitarian violations; however, a subset of voices argue Iran's concerns about national security and the need to address illegal immigration. Overall, the comments reflect a complex interplay of human rights advocacy and geopolitical considerations.

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&gt; # [‘They threw us out like garbage’: Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/14435eb2a76d87e32f461822f5450580c6cd7788/465_0_5033_4024/master/5033.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=82a66519ac2b890094a142483106dc00)
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&gt; Women forced back to living under the Taliban’s increasingly repressive regime have spoken of their desperation as Iran accelerates the deportation of an estimated 4 million Afghans who had fled to the country.
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&gt; In the past month alone, more than 250,000 people, including thousands of lone women, have returned to Afghanistan from Iran, [according to the UN’s migration agency.](https://www.iom.int/news/record-256000-afghan-migrants-return-iran-iom-warns-dire-funding-shortfall) The numbers accelerated before [Sunday’s deadline set by the Iranian regime](https://afghanistan.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl1071/files/documents/2025-06/iom-afghanistanflash-update-1.pdf) for all undocumented Afghans to leave the country.
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&gt; The Taliban, who returned to power in 2021, have been accused of enforcing a system of [gender apartheid](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/09/what-is-gender-apartheid-activists-international-law-women-girls-rights-afghanistan-iran) in Afghanistan. Women returning to the country must live with oppressive laws that ban them from showing their faces, speaking or appearing in public, as well as being excluded from most jobs and education. Anyone caught breaking these rules faces [public flogging](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/06/afghanistan-taliban-sharia-law-mahram-women-flogging-public-moral-crimes-guardians).
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&gt; [A woman behind a cabin window speaks to a woman wearing a headscarf at the front of the queue outside](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b4aa548d7e43eb50145a3ee90070c95e17098fe1/0_0_6048_4032/master/6048.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none)
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&gt; An employee of the NGO World Vision assists a woman at an office where deported Afghans can call their family members, 3 July, Islam Qala, Afghanistan. Photograph: Elise Blanchard/Getty Images
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&gt; Speaking to the Guardian and [Zan Times](https://zantimes.com/), an Afghan news agency, at a border crossing in southern Afghanistan, Sahar\*, 40, is travelling with five children and says she has no idea where she will live now. A widow originally from Baghlan, a city in northern Afghanistan, she had been living in Iran for more than a decade. She ran a small tailoring workshop and had recently put down a deposit on a home. Last week, she says she was detained, taken with her children from a refugee camp near the southern city of Shiraz, and deported.
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&gt; “I didn’t even get to pack their clothes. They came in the middle of the night. I begged them to give me just two days to collect my things. But they didn’t listen. They threw us out like garbage.”
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&gt; Until recently, women were rarely forcibly returned from Iran. Men, often undocumented labourers, were more likely to face arrest and deportation. But Afghan border officials say there has been a recent shift, with at least 100 unaccompanied women deported through a single border point in Nimroz province, in the south of the country, between March and May this year.
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&gt; Returning to [Afghanistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan) without a male guardian puts women in direct conflict with Taliban law, which prohibits women from travelling alone. Many of those returned from Iran find themselves stranded at the border, unable to continue their journey.
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&gt; With temperatures now reaching 52C, local officials say that a number of people have died during the forced crossings. Border officials say at least 13 bodies have arrived in the past two weeks, but it was not clear whether they had died of heat and thirst or were killed during Israel’s airstrikes in Iran.
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&gt; Afghans wait for assistance and buses at the Iranian border on 3 July in Islam Qala. Women are unable to continue their journey without a male escort. Photograph: Elise Blanchard/Getty Images
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&gt; Those arriving at border crossings in southern Afghanistan say they are thirsty, hungry and exhausted, having walked for hours under the sun. Most have no belongings, documentation or plan about where to live.
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&gt; “From Shiraz to Zahedan [close to the Afghan border], they took everything from us. My bank card had [15 million tomans (£110)](https://www.visitouriran.com/blog/iran-currency-and-payments/). They charged 50,000 tomans for a bottle of water, 100,000 for a cold sandwich. And if you didn’t have it, your child went without,” says Sahar.
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&gt; The Taliban says it offers short-term shelter and transport assistance to women deported without a *mahram* (an adult male who can accompany her on a journey). But many returnees say they received no such help. Under Taliban policy, most single women are barred from receiving land, travelling alone to their home province, or accessing employment.
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&gt; Sahar says her options in Afghanistan are bleak. She has an elderly mother in Baghlan, but no home, no job and no husband, meaning, under Taliban rules, she cannot travel alone or work legally. “I asked for land [from the Taliban], anything to start again. They said, ‘You’re a woman, you have no mahram. You don’t qualify.’”
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&gt; [A group of Afghan men holding forms](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b202cbb6605d483873f13b1c56b056cd48756488/0_0_6048_4032/master/6048.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none)
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&gt; Deported Afghans wait to receive sim cards at the Iranian border on 3 July in Islam Qala. Many arrive hungry and exhausted, having walked for hours in extreme heat. Photograph: Elise Blanchard/Getty Images
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&gt; Many end up relying on extended family or informal networks. One woman, recently returned with a newborn, says she was denied food and shelter. “They told me: ‘You’re not eligible. You don’t have a man with you.’ But my baby is just four days old. Where am I supposed to go?”
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&gt; The UN agency, the International Organization for Migration, and other groups provide temporary aid at border crossings, but they do not have the mandate or resources for long-term support.
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&gt; In the buses taking deportees from detention to the Afghanistan borders, women also say they are subjected to verbal abuse, bribes demanded for basic services and no air conditioning in extreme heat. “They said it’s a waste for you Afghans. My child cried from the heat, but the driver laughed and mocked us,” says Zahra\*.
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I am genuinely asking, can someone please explain nicely to me how something like this gets almost no outrage yet one of the main arguments against Israel is them encouraging immigration from Gaza?

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That's more deportations than the US has had in the last decade combined despite our significantly larger population.

HugsForUpvotes

Hasbara didn't waste any time on this post.

Prudent_Ad_4737

Fuck the Taliban and Iran. Two evil shit govts/terrorists that should have been eliminated.

FBIAgentMulder

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PavelnMe

Pakistan tried to get them out too. Pakistan didn’t honour the citizenship by birth in Pakistan when it came to many afghans.

Wombats_poo_cubes

I predict it: this post would get very little attention, because bad things are bad only when Israel or the west does it.

When its done by countries/groups that are considered "brown" or a "minority" by western leftists/communists, its non of their problem.

Much like how the plight of the druze was ignored.

Scholarind

Iran learning 🇮🇷 from Trumpety Trump 🎺

Past_Humor8321

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.

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

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

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

Mack5775

why muslims are expelling muslims , is this ummah brotherhood

Effective_Mousse_594

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

Allah would never approve.
Muslims take care of muslims

Dull_Warthog_3389

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

Damn. Barely any social media outrage last year when Pakistan started or when Iran now is doing so. I guess it just really goes to show that it becomes about the ummah when it’s some non-Islamic government involved. (And no, this isn’t about Israel-Palestine.) 

I feel like Americans are more upset than anything but that’s for Afghans who risked everything to help American troops being treated like this.

seiryuu-abi

Anecdotal but according to some iranian telegrams its because most of the mossad agents dispensing the drones and destroying public infrastructure were actually afghans paid alot of money to do it

forkkind2

It's quite a shame imo.

It's pretty much meant to shunt some of the blame to these poor people, for the economic situation and for the failures in the war, while also trying to appeal to the more xenophobic Iranians (who seem to often be monarchists in my experience).

People argue that these will somehow improve the economic situation in Iran, but I personally think those people are rather dumb, no amount of Afghan expulsion is going to fix decades of sanctions and mismanagement and speeding up the collapse of a neighbouring country isn't going to help either.

Vegetable-College-17

... Afghanistan.


That's...that's the point.


&gt; “I worked in Iran for 42 years, so hard that my knees are broken, and for what?” Mohammad Akhundzada, a construction worker, said at a processing center for returnees in Islam Qala, a border town in northwestern Afghanistan, near Herat.


Money.  Again, the point.

PipingTheTobak

It’s okay you guys, the western coalition that destroyed their home country should be just about finished rebuilding Afghanistan.

That being said both my mother country of Pakistan and Iran have much to be ashamed of here. I will talk about the Pakistani side since I know it better.

The government in Pakistan is desperate for more and more escape goats. The dynasties of Nawaz and their ilk have bleed us dry for a long time. The common man makes less and everything he needs costs more. It’s hard to have enough resources to build a life and it’s easier to blame Afghanis then fight the oligarchs and Asim Munir. The saddest part of this is as long as I can remember the Afghanis have been part of the cultural tapestry.

This is what you get with more wars in the Middle East, migrant crises, and this is just the start.

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