In an unhumane action, the Islamic regime of Iran has given a 3 months ultimatum to almost 900,000 Afghan immigrants to leave the country. The regime officials said that every Afghan that voluntarily leave Iran will be received $150 by the UN Refugee Agency and their luggage transported to the Afghan border.

Afghan immigrants are part of those residents of Iran who have been working and living there for decades in absolute rightlessness. Being systematically oppressed by the regime, living in a permanent fear of harassments, heavy penalties, and expulsion due to lack of residence and work permission, being denied by the authorities the right to get their children to school, lacking of any social security, being humiliated by the official media, along with lower wages which make them being brutally exploited by employees, these are features of the situation of Afghan immigrants under the Islamic rule in Iran. The officials and media claim that unemployment in Iran would remarkably be reduced by the expulsion of Afghans. Ascribing crime and unemployment to deprived Afghan immigrants is another element of the provocations of the regime against them. The Iranian nationalism too is sharing with the Islamic regime the humiliation and intimidation of the Afghans.

It goes without saying that a far more uncertain, unsecure and dark future is waiting for these people in case they are deported to Afghanistan. The decision of the Islamic Republic of Iran in coordination with the UNHCR to drive off Afghans is an obvious crime against humanity and is comparable with ethnic cleansings in the history of our times. This is part of the vain attempts of a regime to escape from the encirclement of people’s rising anger and hatred. This action must be faced with decent people’s reaction.

The Worker-communist Party of Iran condemns the criminal plans of the Islamic regime and UNHCR, advocates equal civil rights for Afghan immigrants and all inhabitants of the country independent of their place of birth, and calls on all freedom-loving people to stand against this inhumane treatment and propaganda against Afghan immigrants and strongly support them. For ending poverty, unemployment, insecurity, crime, rightlessness, and other economic and social sufferings in Iran, the people, including immigrants, must rise unitedly and overthrow the disgraced Islamic regime.

Down with the Islamic Regime of Iran!

No religious, ethnic, or national, but humane identity!

Worker-communist Party of Iran

December 27, 2011