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As Iran-Taliban tensions rise, Afghan migrants in tinderbox
Taliban members who killed her husband who activated Zahra Husseini: Married one of us, and you will be safe.
Husseini, 31, decided to escape. Through a flat without law, he and his two small children walk, motorbikes and trucks until they reach Iran.
When Afghanistan fell into the economic crisis after the United States withdrew the troops and the Taliban seized power, the 960 kilometer long border (572 miles) with Iran became a living line for Afghanistan who piled up in a smuggling pickup in the search for money and despair.
But in the last few weeks, the desert intersection, which is a dangerous angle in the world, has become a source of tension that is increasingly large because it is estimated that 5,000 Afghan people cross every day and neighbors – before the enemy who exchanged fuel, shared water and had a tortured history – Navigating an increasingly charged relationship.
In recent weeks, small battles erupted between the border guards of the Taliban and Iran. Afghanistan in three cities united against Iran. The demonstrators threw stones and burned the Iranian consulate. The fatal stabbing spree, allegedly by an Afghan migrant, in Iran’s most sacred temple sent a wave of surprise throughout the country.
Political analysts say even because the two countries do not want escalation, hostility that has long smokes is at risk of uncontrolled risk.”You have one of the worst refugee crisis in the world that only runs at daily speed and historical hostility,” said Andrew Watkins, a senior Afghansan expert at the United States Institute of Peace. “An earthquake will occur.”
The danger is personal for Afghan citizens across the border like Husseini. Since the takeover of the Taliban, Iran has increased the deportation of the Afghan migrant, according to the US Migration Agency, warned that the economy hit by sanctions could not handle the entry.
In the first three months of this year, Iran’s deportation jumped 60% every month, said Ashley Carl, Deputy Head of the Afghan Agency Mission. Many of the 251,000 that returned from Iran this year bear the wounds and scars from difficult trips, he said, who survived car accidents, shots, and other hard work.
Roshangol Hakimi, a 35 -year -old child who fled to Iran after the takeover of the Taliban, said that the smugglers and became his daughter’s hostage who was 9 years old more than a week until his relatives paid ransom.
The lucky ones landed in Tehran’s drag, squeezed into a damp and crowded hallway. Iran estimates that at least one million Afghan citizens have sought protection in the country for the past eight months.
Like many people, Husseini lives in the Limbo law, vulnerable to harassment and exploitation. His boss at the tailor shop refused to pay his salary. His landlord threatened to kick him. He could barely collect enough cash to feed his children.
We don’t have anything and there is no place to go,” he said from a narrow room in South Tehran, equipped only with donated gas heater, chairs and several velor blankets.
When more and more Afghan citizens, help them become more difficult. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh deplored last month that “Afghan waves that were neglected could not continue to Iran” because Iran’s “capacity” was limited. Iranian youth unemployment floated more than 23%. Iran’s currency, Rial, has withered to be less than 50% of its value since 2018.
The biggest challenge is that Iran is not ready for new situations of refugees,” Political Analyst based in Tehran, Rea Ghobeishavi, about the increase in friction between Afghanistan and Iran.
Iran has become more anxious when a series of bloody attacks in Afghanistan targets the country’s minority, Hazara Shiites explained that extremist threats breed even though the Taliban promised to provide security.
There are reports that some extremists enter Iran easily with refugees,” said Abbas Husseini, a prominent Afghanistan journalist in Tehran, who described the increase in paranoia in Iran.
