IRAN - Sept. 16 - Tehran Closes Afghan Border.
Tehran says it has sent troops and police to close its 900km-long
border with Afghanistan to block an expected influx of refugees Individuals who leave their native country for social, political, or religious reasons, or who are forced to leave as a result of any type of disaster, including war, political upheaval, and famine. . The
Deputy Governor of the Khorassan province says: "We will defend our
territory and will not let any damage be inflicted on our borders".
Iran, which already hosts more than 1.5m Afghans fleeing from drought drought, abnormally long period of insufficient rainfall. Drought cannot be defined in terms of inches of rainfall or number of days without rain, since it is determined by such variable factors as the distribution in time and area of precipitation during and before and war, has urged the UN to set up refugee refugee, one who leaves one's native land either because of expulsion or to escape persecution. The legal problem of accepting refugees is discussed under asylum; this article considers only mass dislocations and the organizations that help refugees. camps on the Afghan side of
the border. In reality, the border is impossible to seal off.
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