About 490,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran over the past 18 months, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Afghanistan‘s Ministry of Refugees and Returnees (MoRR) told IRIN. One hundred and forty thousand undocumented Afghans have been deported so far in 2008, and some 350,000 were deported in 2007. Every day 1,500-2,000 individuals are expelled from Iran.
