July 30, 2024
Once again, news indicating harassment of hard-working Afghan immigrants has been circulating in virtual media and some newspapers. According to this news, in some areas where Afghan immigrants live, some provoked people attacked these immigrants with knives and machetes and injured some of them. News and information indicate that in such cases, instead of interfering and preventing the attack, the police only monitor the scene of these attacks. In just the last few days, more than 20 Afghan citizens have been beaten up and some of them have been seriously injured in District 15 of Tehran. Such attacks have also occurred in other areas. Also, Afghan nationals have been removed from Farahzad neighborhood of Tehran by the special unit of Greater Tehran police. In many areas, Afghans cannot leave their homes due to pressure and threats. In some areas in other parts of Iran, landlords have been under pressure not to accept Afghan immigrants and they have been asked not to rent them and if they are living somewhere, to set a deadline for evacuation.
Due to its incompetence in managing the society, the Islamic Republic pretends the presence of Afghan immigrants as the cause of the people's problems, and in fact, these hard-working immigrants escaping from the Taliban are the cause of the aggravation of poverty, unemployment, high prices, lack of housing, and the general misery of the Iranian people and the increase in crime. While according to some statistics, in the city of Tehran, which is the most important area of presence of Afghan immigrants in Iran, the crime rate of Afghans is 30 to 70 percent compared to Iranians. Most of the crimes related to this 30% are directed at the immigrants themselves and do not include Iranians. During the years of their stay in Iran, Afghan immigrants have never created a significant problem for the people of Iran. The problematic force for the Iranian people and the Afghan immigrants is the Islamic Republic itself, which has not only graded the Iranian people based on its ideology and organized discrimination, but also measures the Afghan immigrants with the same standards, and by creating the Fatemiyoun Brigade from among these immigrants, it has endangered their lives and security and killed many of them in its regional adventures.
Workers and wage earners are producers of wealth all over the world and they are not the cause of poverty and unemployment anywhere in the world. The shameful propaganda of the regime and extreme nationalists should be unearthed by leftist, libertarian and civil movement activists. Afghan migrant workers have the right to benefit from their human rights, like Iranian citizens, and their rights recognized in international conventions for migrants and refugees. These immigrants in Iran generally live illegally due to the negligence of the regime in providing their human rights, and without the support of the Iranian regime, they are left on their own and are mostly engaged in hard work, and they are always worried about being sent back to their country.
The Left Party of Iran calls on the political organizations, human rights institutions, democratic associations and people of Iran, not to let some provoked and ignorant people tarnish the human countenance of the Iranian people with their racist behavior. We have a duty to defend the rights and dignity of Afghan immigrants. The people of Iran and Afghanistan live side by side, share a common language, culture and history. It is our moral and human duty to protect the rights of Afghan immigrants and refugees.
Political-Executive Board of the Left Party of Iran
July 30, 2024
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