Mass deportation of Afghans from Iran is reaching new levels.
In the past 10 days over 23000 Afghans were deported and handed over to Taliban border control.
Ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Iranian government has pushed to help or forcefully deport afghan citizens living in Iran.
Many of them have lived all their lives in iran, even second generation afghan refugees who are now being forced to leave the country, have never been to Afghanistan and were living in a limbo for up to 3 decades.
Iran doesn't allow Afghans to become Iranian citizens, no matter how long they lived in the country or they were born there.
Racism towards afghans is widespread and in most cases iranian women who marry an afghan citizen, risking to have children who will never have a birth certificate and become stateless.
Very small group of people in Iran support the rights of Afghans in the country and calls for granting citizenship to all children born in the country have gained no support and instead they are being harassed, bullied and ridiculed by both regime supporters and the opposition groups, specially the nationalists and monarchists.
The sad part is that many of the most vocal opponent of this are people with dual nationality.
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