Saturday, May 26, 2012


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Video: Afghan Refugees In Iran Speak Out

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"Time" magazine's recent inclusion of "Ethnic Unrest In Iran" at No. 5 on its list of "Top 10 Underreported Stories" of 2009 offers an opportunity for a helpful reminder.

The documentary project Couscous Global produced a video report last spring about the experience of Afghan refugees living in Iran.

The group interviewed Afghan members of an Iran-based theater group, asking them what they remember about home country. The video also addresses the complications of living in Iran, a country that retains strong memories of the Iran-Iraq war in the late 1980s.

It's worth the 5 minutes:



There's lots more from Iran, too.

-- Kristin Deasy
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by: Kamboujieh from: Tehran
January 10, 2010 04:50
The Afghan government must pay attention to its citizens in Iran and along with the Iranian government must help these refugees to return Afghanistan. Iran and the Iranian people have engulfed in numerous economic and unemployment problems and difficulties and can not afford the refugees burden any longer. the incompetent Iranian government must set a deadline and ask these refugees to return home. it is high time for these refugees to go back to their own country.

by: Sousan from: London
January 20, 2010 06:17
Kamboujieh: many Western countries are suffering from economic problems these days but would you ask them to return all Iranian refugees to Iran? No - most Iranians who came to the West have received citizenship. Thousands of Afghan refugees in Iran have built the country with their own hands, have done the dirty work of Iranians, and even defended Iran during the war. They have lived in Iran for over thirty years and their children know no other home, so why should they continue to suffer this indignity of living without rights and constantly at risk of people like you telling them to get out?

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