IRNA The Iranian Embassy in Canberra in a statement on Friday in response to the offensive remarks of two Australian politicians against Iranian asylum seekers saying they have 'gravely outraged the Iranian community living in Australia'. Nine News Australia broadcasted a program called 'A Current Affair' on 26th February 2018, regarding the arrest ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham announced that there has been no agreement between Tehran and Canberra over forced repatriation of Iranian nationals from Australia. "No agreement has been reached about forced repatriation of asylum seekers," Afkham told reporters during her weekly press conference in Tehran ...

Kuala Lumpur, June 22, IRNA Australian foreign minister said in Canberra on Monday that Australian government ruled out refugee status of Iranians calling them economic migrants saying they will be repatriated as per an agreement with Iranian government. Julie Bishop made the remarks in a statement to the Australian Parliament. She confirmed ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian source on Friday denied as untrue a recent media report on an alleged agreement between Tehran and Canberra over the return of Iranian asylum-seekers from Australia. Earlier today, a report by The West Australian claimed that Iranians held in Australia could be returned under a deal being negotiated between the two countries....

IRANIANS held in Australian immigration detention could be returned under a deal being negotiated between the two countries. FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton met with an Iranian delegation, led by director-general for consular affairs Ali Chegeni, in Canberra this week. The two countries are working on a memorandum ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 19 (MNA) Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates Affairs, criticizing the compulsory deport of refugees by some Western countries, stressed that the voluntary return of any Iranian to the country is welcomed. Following the recent visit of Australian FM to Tehran, Hassan Ghashghavi said ...

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has met with Iran's foreign minister for the first high-level talks between Australia and Tehran in more than a decade. Speaking at a joint press conference with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Ms Bishop said she had discussed the Islamic State conflict and asylum seeker issues, as well as human rights....

Sanctions expected to be on the table when Australian foreign minister visits Iran this week to lobby for forced repatriation of failed asylum seekers. Iran is likely to press for Australia to ease sanctions on petrochemical trade during a high-level meeting in Tehran later this week, whenJulie Bishopwill lobby to allow the return of asylum seekers ...

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will lobby Iran to take back hundreds of failed asylum seekers when she visits Tehran next week. Iran has not cooperated with forced returns of its citizens who have been rejected as refugees by Australia. More than 3,000 Iranians in the community on bridging visas are yet to have their claims assessed, and more than ...

A newly-leaked document shows that the Australian government is liable for the death of a young Iranian asylum-seeker by delaying his transfer from an offshore detention camp to hospital, Press TV reports. The document, which was revealed on Friday, showed that the 24-year-old Iranian did not receive proper medical attention because the Australian ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates' Affairs Hassan Qashqavi lashed out at Australia for not taking practical measures to stop mistreatment of asylum seekers, and warned Iranians not to travel to Australia through illegal channels. "Negotiations between Iran and Australia continue even at the level ...

MELBOURNE, March 12 (Bernama) -- A former asylum seeker from Iran, who helped his family to be smuggled into Australia, has been jailed by the Victorian County Court here on Wednesday. Lamis Hameed Alli Baighi, 36, was found guilty last month of a people smuggling offence after helping at least five extended family members come to Australia by boat ...

[caption id="attachment_87605" align="alignright" width="180"] Marty Natalegawa (left) shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.[/caption] Iran and Indonesia are preparing to discuss Australias treatment of asylum seekers, following the death of an Iranian man on Manus Island. Reza Barati, 23, died on 17 February when riots ...

Amid an outpouring of grief at a mosque in the dusty southern suburbs of Tehran on Thursday, relatives of the dead Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati added chilling detail to the moments when he was clubbed to death at the Manus Island detention centre. Speaking after a memorial service attended by as many as 1500, most of them his fellow Iranian Kurds,...

He went to Australia to seek refuge from his land of dreams, where he could have a life and study but instead he was held in captivity and killed, says cousin. The family of the Iranian asylum seeker killed during unrest in a Papua New Guinea detention centre have said they want answers from the Australian government on what happened to him in ...

Australians have rallied in a suburb of Sydney to denounce the killing of a young Iranian asylum seeker in a detention camp on Manus Island off the Papua New Guinea coast. The protesters slammed the governments immigration policies, calling for the resignation of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Similar protests were also held in Melbourne ...

The Iranian man who died during violent clashes on Manus Island earlier this week was a 23-year-old named Reza Barati, who arrived on Christmas Island last July. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday that Australian diplomats in Iran had contacted his family, who had agreed for his details to be released. Mr Barati, who arrived in ...

Tehran has complained to Australia about the death of an Iranian asylum seeker at a detention center in Papua New Guinea. In a Tuesday meeting with Australian Ambassador to Tehran Paul Foley, Director General of Irans Foreign Ministry on Consular Affairs Seyyed Hossein Mir-Fakhar protested the incident and said that asylum seekers should be treated ...

Nine Iranian asylum seekers in Australias Christmas Island have sewn up their lips and dozens are on hunger strike in protest at the Australian government policies on immigrants. While 78 refugees have been on hunger strike since last week, the nine Iranian asylum seekers who have stitched their mouths shut with dental floss, also threatened to sew ...

Over recent months, Iran has become the largest source of asylum seekers arriving in Australia, with more than 5,000 having arrived this year, amounting to about one-third of the total. While the debate about stopping the boats continues in the lead up to the federal election, there has been little or no discussion about why people are fleeing and ...