An Iranian government official has told the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) that the country would no longer be able to resettle Afghan migrants without proper assistance from the international community. Mehdi Mahmoudi, who is in charge of foreign nationals and migrants department at the Iranian Interior Ministry, said on Tuesday that funds ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to play a more active role in the settlement of the critical humanitarian conditions in Afghanistan. The top Iranian diplomat, who arrived in New York on Monday to take part in the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, held a meeting ...

Press TV - The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran, Ivo Freijsen, has hailed as an "important achievement" the countrys hosting of Afghan refugees for more than four decades, vowing to help the Islamic Republic protect Afghans amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. "As UNHCR, we want to first ...

Press TV - Iran's ambassador to international organizations in Geneva has slammed US sanctions as the main factor targeting the countrys health sectors capabilities, urging the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) not to ignore this grave problem. Iran's health capacity is viciously targeted by the United States unilateral sanctions, Esmaeil Baqaei said ...

IRNA - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) chief on Monday lauded support granted by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for the Afghan refugees. The Leader of Islamic Revolution's decree in support of Afghan children's education was a big step forward worth admiring, Filippo Grandi noted during his visit to a refugee camp in ...

IRNA | Faraj Samadi: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Chief Filippo Grandi conferred on bilateral ties and regional developments.    

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Chief Filippo Grandi conferred on bilateral ties and regional developments. Zarif and Grandi discussed the current status of the Syrian and Afghan refugees in their host countries. In a relevant development earlier in the morning, Grandi met Iranian ...

Press TV - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says an estimated 750,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Syriareturned to their homes in the first half of the current year, adding that the figure equals the amount for all of last year. The UN refugee agency announced in a statement on Friday that the repatriations have ...

MNA |Maryam Qarehgozlou: Global refugee compact will mobilize support for protracted refugee situation in Iran, UN Refugee Agency, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Volker Trk, said on Monday. Global refugee compact is an effort by all 193 members of the United Nations to design to protect those who are forced to flee and support the ...

MNA Iranian Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Police Affairs met with UNHCRs Assistant High Commissioner for Protection during which he said 97% of immigrants hosted by Iran are living under similar conditions as Iranians. HosseinZolfaghari, Iranian Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Police Affairs, met and talked with visiting ...

MNA UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Volker Trk has arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a two-day visit. His visit aims to reaffirm the UNHCR's commitment to continue cooperation with Iran as a host country to one of the largest population of refugees in the world. During his stay, Volker Trk will meet with a group of senior representatives ...

IRNA - Head of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Iran thanked Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for ordering the Iranian officials to provide education for the Afghan children. Speaking in a local ceremony, Irina Cornici said that the UN Refugee Agency is thankful of the Leader of Islamic Revolution's order that provides Afghan refugees' ...

IRNA Representative of the UN Refugee Agency Dana Pala hailed the measures taken by Iran within the framework of international commitments. Pana made the remarks while referring to Irans efforts with regard to refugees and immigrants on Sunday in the farewell meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Meanwhile Zarif emphasized ...

Tasnim A delegation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is going to visit Iran next month to make an assessment of the situation of refugees, especially the Afghans, UNHCR representative in Iran said. In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency in Irans northeastern city of Mashhad, Sivanka Dhanapala said the UN delegation ...

American Herald Tribune | Yuram Abdullah Weiler: The raging Saudi-imposed, U.S.-backed war continues amid a backdrop of U.S. president Donald Trumps recent visit to the Arabian Peninsula. While the Potomac potentate amused himself dancing with swords alongside the Riyadh royals, the oppressed people of Yemen continued to suffer under a siege launched ...

Financial Tribune- Germany will strengthen support for Irans policies for Afghan refugees by contributing five million euros ($5.58 million) in the next two years to the UNHCR Solution Strategy for Afghan Refugees (SSAR). The SSAR is a quadripartite multi-year regional strategy between the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran together with ...

Press TV - The Office of theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees(UNHCR) says members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group are holding more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians as human shields in the Old City of western Mosul as government forces are pushing to drive the extremists out of their last bastion in the city. More than 100,000 civilians ...

IRNA Representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Tehran Sivanka Dana Pala said here on Monday that Irans measures for refugees exemplary. He made the remarks in closing ceremony for the 4th National Festival on Afghanistan studies in Yazd. Dana Pala said that education of Afghan pupils in Iran and exempting them to ...

IRNA Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs Abbas Araqchi on Tuesday stressed the need for interaction and dialogue and preventing to play politics with human rights issue. He made the remarks in an address to the High Level Segment of the Human Rights Council held in Geneva, Switzerland. He regretted that despite promising ...

January 12, The Iran Project Following a decree by leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei that all Afghan children in Iran should be permitted schooling regardless of their residency status, Head of the Literacy Movement Organization has announced that the literacy rate of foreign nationals has grown by 60 percent since the beginning ...