Iranian authorities have shot down six Afghan migrants who would have tried to cross the country via Sistan and Baluchhetan province, it appeared on Wednesday.
According to a report by the Halvash Human Rights group, the six migrants were killed on September 8, while several others were injured while around 300 Afghans tried to pass the border crossing. The Iranian forces opened fire on 120 migrants, using RPG (grenades launchers), holding 40 of them in Sistan and Baluchhetan province in the Golshan border passage.
Tearing two survivors’ accounts, Halvash said that Ehsanullah Tadjik, Nasrullah Barkzai, Hezbullah Barkzai, Wai Barkzai and Basheer Ahmad Barkzai, were part of the wounded.
The wounded were transferred to hospitals and many would have been in critical condition.
Neither the Iranian authorities nor the Afghan government has published an official declaration concerning the incident.
More than 300 Afghan migrants were criticized in the Iranian border region last year, which resulted in many deaths, including an incident in October 2024, when the Iranian border forces opened fire on Afghan migrants, killing dozens, injured or missing.
According to the United Nations agency for the United Nations, around 780,000 Afghan refugees reside in Iran. The Iranian government’s workforce in 2022 indicated that the number of Afghans in Iran was around 2.6 million.
Iran has an aggressive policy with regard to Afghan refugees, with an amazing of 1.5 Afghan milllon returned to 2025, according to the International United Nations Migration Organization.
