Deported Afghans Call on Government to Recover Their Property from Iran

According to them, hundreds of millions of Iranian tomans and household belongings were left behind, and Iranian landlords are not responding to Afghan migrants.

They are calling on the caretaker government to take action to retrieve their property and assets from Iran.

Esmatullah, one of the deportees, said: “A family worked hard for ten years, paying between 500 to 700 million tomans in rent to Iranian landlords. But when they try to contact the landlord, he doesn’t answer, and no government body responds to Afghan migrants either.”

Fardin, another deportee, said: “We left behind the life we built with hard work and returned to our country. We couldn’t reclaim our rent money. The landlord said he would send it, but we don’t know whether he actually will.”

Amir Mohammad, who was deported along with five members of his family, says that 280 million tomans and all of their household belongings were left behind in Iran, and the landlord has given no response.

Speaking to TOLOnews, he said: “I did everything I could, but he said he didn’t have the rent money. I told him, ‘You took 280 million tomans from me in just two days,’ but now six months have passed, and he hasn’t returned even fifty million. He’s just being forceful. In the end, despite having census cards and passports, we were deported.”

Some migrant rights activists view this as a serious injustice and are calling for the repatriation of Afghan migrants’ assets from Iran.

Sayed Ashraf Sadat, a migrant rights activist, said: “When an Afghan migrant in Iran has a rented home, bank deposits, or other transactions, they can’t resolve them and are cruelly deported. I hope a mechanism is created so these migrants can access justice and settle their financial matters before returning to Afghanistan.”

Many Afghan migrants have lived in Iran for decades. According to them, all their belongings have remained with landlords in Iran, while they returned home empty-handed.