Iranian media has reported that officials of the Islamic Republic have prohibited the registration of Afghan children in schools in certain cities. Reports indicate that schools in the provinces of Kerman, Shiraz, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad are refusing to enroll Afghan children.
Mohammad Mahdi Fadakar, the governor of Kerman, announced during a meeting of the province’s education council on Saturday, September 24, that the registration of Afghan students without documentation in Kerman’s schools is being strictly monitored and prohibited. This official warned school administrators in Kerman that they are not allowed to enroll undocumented refugees.
The governor stated that legal action would be taken against school administrators who register “unauthorized” individuals, particularly undocumented Afghan refugees. Meanwhile, some Afghan refugees in Shiraz have reported that their children are not being registered in several schools in the province.
An Afghan migrant shared a video on social media showing an elementary school in Shiraz displaying a notice on its door stating, “Registration of foreigners is not conducted at this school.”
At the same time, the Fars News Agency reported, citing Javad Hashemi, the political and security deputy of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, about the prohibition of registering undocumented foreign students in this province.
This information comes as the public prosecutor of Bardasir city in Iran recently banned the sale of subsidized bread to Afghan migrants. In recent months, the Islamic Republic has intensified the expulsion of Afghan nationals, detaining and deporting undocumented Afghan migrants from the country.
It is noteworthy that the commander of the Iranian police recently stated that the Islamic Republic plans to expel about two million “unauthorized foreign nationals” from the country by the end of this year.
