Khamenei orders schooling for all Afghan children in Iran

Iran's supreme leader has ordered that all Afghan children in Iran, regardless of their residency status, be schooled.
Afghan children wait to enter school for the second shift of classes at a small private school for Afghans south of Tehran. Afghan children wait to enter school for the second shift of classes at a small private school for Afghans south of Tehran January 17, 2004. Iran's Bureau for Immigrants on Monday denied U.N accusations of sending Afghan refugees home against their will. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi - RTRKRI8
Afghan children wait to enter school for the second shift of classes at a small private school for Afghans south of Tehran, Jan. 17, 2004. - REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi
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Arash Karami
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered that all Afghan children in Iran be permitted schooling regardless of their residency status. This decision impacts hundreds of thousands of children and can help improve the precarious status of the approximately 3 million Afghans in Iran.

According to Tasnim News Agency, Khamenei said, “No Afghan child, not even immigrants who came to Iran illegally and without documents, must be kept from an education and all of them must be registered in Iranian schools.”

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