Iran pulled out 1.5 million Afghan with some branded spies for Israel

Ali Ahmed’s eyes filled with tears because he picked up his shirt to show deep wounds on his back.

When he was taken into custody, Iranian officials were attacked by officers and accused him of spying. “They used hoses, water pipes and wooden boards to beat me. They treated us like animals.”

He was speaking to the BBC earlier this month at Islam Arts on the border of two countries before returning to Afghanistan. His name has been changed to protect his identity.

Iran – Those who say they say that they organize more than four million undocumented Afgies that have escaped from conflict in their homeland – have been expelled for several months. The July deadline for voluntarily departing without documents was given, but in June, the authorities have forcibly returned hundreds of thousands of Afghans of national security concerns.

At the beginning of July, the daily returns reached about 000, 5,3 people, according to the United Nations – often after a difficult journey.

Ali Ahmed says that the officials of Iran’s officials seized their money and phone and left him without leaving “a penny to travel back”. He lived in Iran for two and a half years.

In the Iranian operation, the Afghan intelligence agency has linked the widespread allegations against Mosad, which some people have been arrested for spying, police sources said.

“We are afraid to go anywhere, are constantly worried that we can be labeled as a diamond,” a person who wanted to be anonymous, told BBC News to Afghan.

“You are Afghan”, “You work for Israel” or “you create drone in your home”, according to the person, according to the person.

Afghan expert Barnet Rubin, a senior adviser to the US State Department, says that Tehran is “looking for a victim” because of the lack of war against Israel.

He says, “The Iranian government is very embarrassed by the failure of Iran’s security,” he said, “he says,” he says, “he says,” he says.

“So they had to find someone to blame them.”

The critics say that the allegations of spying are aimed at buying legalities for the government’s plan to expel the abusive Afghan.

The BBC tried to contact the Iranian government but did not respond. Afghan refugees “without tension and respected for human rights… there is a goal at all levels,” said the state-supported Islamic Republic News Agency on July 18.

Abdullah Razai, whose name has also been changed, has a similar story by Ali Ahmed.

Abdullah told the BBC in Islam Kala that about 19 Iranian officials had physical harm to him and other refugees.

“The Iranian police torn my visa and passport and beat me tightly. They accused me of spying.”

Abdullah says that despite the visa, he was in Iran two months ago before he was taken into custody.

“They beat us with plastic bats and said: ‘You are not a spy, you are spoiling your country’.”

He was taken into custody for four days “felt like four years”. He describes constant abuse, physical abuse and lack of food.

The online accusation of cooperation between Afghan and Israeli Secret Services began in the beginning of the war.

On June 3, the government made a statement to the population on the day Israel attacked the Iranian nuclear and military facilities and asked the citizens to register suspicious activities such as van’s unusual movements, which may be transported by Israeli operative weapons.

The Telegram channel then posted a warning message using the same word of the government with the large followers. But they added that the population should be aware of the “alien citizen” – the expression used mainly in Iran to describe Afghan – runs the van in big cities.

The next day, a series of arrest of people connected to the Israeli attacks with some Afghanas was recorded.

On June 16, the news channel broadcast a video of the Afghan detained and claimed that they were carrying drones with them. They went viral. But the video was old and depicted the migrants occupied by their undocumented status.

On June 7, the Telegram group responsible for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corporation said that Afghan Witnesses have arrested 3 Afghans in Mashhad city to build drones for Israel.

The next day, the provincial deputy safety chief says that the arrest has nothing to do with “drone-making” or cooperation with Israel. “They were arrested illegally in Iran.”

But the post that was arrested with the spy was widely spread on the social media platform. The hashtag, who says “expel Afghan, is a national demand” was shared more than 200,000 times on X in a month’s space and mentioned more than 20,000 on July 2.

Irani is not new to Afghan on social media, but this time the difference is that “wrong information is coming from social media users, not just from the media related media,” said an independent researcher of Afghan witness.

According to the UN refugee agency, more than 1.5 million Afgues have left Iran from January. A spokesperson of the Taliban refugees and in the indigenous return told the BBC that more than 918,3 from Iran from June 1 to July 7, entered Afghanistan in Afghanistan.

Some generations were in Iran.

Millions of Afghan have fled to Iran and Pakistan since the 1970s. 1979.

Experts have been warned in Afghanistan that there is no ability to acquire the growing number of citizens who have been forced under the Taliban rules. The country is already struggling with the great influx of returning of Pakistan, which is forced to release millions of Afghan.

Specialist Dr. Dr London displaced in Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Khadija Abbasi says the Afghan was initially welcomed in Iran. But the sentiments of the anti -Afghan gaps gradually increased, the state media has portrayed the Afghan refugees as “economic burden” for the community.

False legends about Afghan immigrants in Iran follow up.

In the 1990s 1990s, a rape and murder series in Tehran was widely assumed, without evidence, Afghan was considered to be a work of Afghan, which led to an increase in hateful crimes. Later it was revealed that the killer was Irani.

When about two million Afghans migrated to Iran in the latter wave, exaggerated positions on social media claimed that more than 10 million Afghan are living in the country. In those days, Iran was the only neighbor who allowed the refugees and immigrants to enter.

Dr. Abbasi says, “To deport Afghan from Iran, most Iranians agree with the government” – this can be a very rare topic – although in July, Afghan citizens in Iran had to end the “invasion” treatment.

Today, the spirit of anti -Afghan is widespread. “She has become very dangerous,” so people will just try to stay home. “

A large number of which no longer an option. The border is swollen with people.

For Abdullah, the deputy has destroyed his plans.

“I lost everything,” he says.

Baberk Ahasas, Yasin Rasoli, Rowan Ings and Sutira Magure, Sorouash Pakistan reported additional reports.