Overview

• More than 1.35 million Afghans have been forced or pressured out of Iran since January, and daily arrivals into western provinces now exceed reception capacity.
• The World Food Program can support only about 1 million of the 10 million Afghans in urgent need of food assistance, leaving many returnees without adequate aid.
• Returnees report torture, arbitrary arrest and threats to their security under Taliban rule despite amnesty pledges for former government personnel.
• Approximately 153,000 women were deported without male guardians, blocking them from renting homes, seeking paid work or accessing health services under Taliban restrictions.
• Iran’s March decree requiring undocumented migrants to depart by July 15 and accusations of espionage after June’s Israel airstrikes have fueled xenophobic expulsions under Iran-Taliban repatriation agreements.