Over 5000 Afghan refugee families returned to their homeland, Afghanistan, in a single day yesterday. Most of them are from Iran.
The massive scale return of refugees continues amid the Afghan interim government’s call on the host country, Iran, to exercise restraint and slow down the refugees’ expulsion. Tehran has asked the Afghan nationals living in Iran illegally to leave the country.
In a recent statement, the Office of the Prime Minister of Afghanistan’s interim government expressed gratitude to Iran for hosting Afghan refugees over the past four decades and called for continued respect for the rights of refugees. More than half a million Afghan refugees have reportedly returned to their country from Iran over the past month.
The Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency reported on Thursday, July 3, 2025, that 126 families returned via the Torkham crossing, 102 families through Spin Boldak in Kandahar, 1,130 families via the Pul-e Abrisham crossing in Nimruz, and 3,850 families through Islam Qala in Herat.
The previous day, more than 3,000 families also returned to the country. The deportation of Afghanistan’s migrants from Iran and Pakistan continues and has intensified in recent days.