In support of afghan refugees

There is a deadline in newspapers that the officials of interior ministry announced again that the children of afghan refugees in Iran must not and can not be educated and take part in Iranian public schools. This agenda has issued under the agreement of Iran and united nation.

Apparently, the effects of this agenda have not been taken into consideration and it is only a faulty and ineffective solution for the current afghan problems in Iran.

And about this there are a few points:

1-for a large country like Iran with a population of more than seventy million people ,presence of less than two million foreigners that about 1.5 million of them are afghan nationals ,not only does not have any harm but also if we look into the following events in these last decades in the field of labor ,could be useful. To explain more it must be note that those who are in touch with the construction and agricultural workers including the brickworks, drilled wells ,anima husbandry, simple workers and etc , know that they will face with lack of Iranian national workers, therefore the expelling of foreign workers under the pretext of they occupied employment vacancies of the Iranian ,nor could be useful neither feasible, because the jobless Iranians are mostly are those who are not willing to do such a back-breaking jobs and it seems that if they had been interested in doing these jobs ,they would do it before . Does all this Diploma and Bachelor degree holders, who are jobless, are wiling to work in the deserts and villages, furnace burner homes, animal husbandry homes ,poultry farming ,in depth of wells ….?

2-as the foreign nationals in any country are in the minority and in Iran, we have Afghans who are of immigrant minorities, their low crimes are deeply conspicuous and soon will be published in mass Medias and it brings a big hate of Iranians toward Afghans than any other crimes. It is crystal clear that crime of foreigners is not acceptable for the host country, therefore the if the officials who have the statistics of crimes which committed by afghan nationals, compare it with the Iranian crime rates and present it, it could be predicted that ration of afghan crimes are very small than the ratio of Iranian one.

3-suppose that the authorities do not accept or accept the two cases above but finally based on a expert ional framework, they could understand that the situation of Afghanistan is good enough that its nationals from all over the world including Iran would come back to their country, and would be shared in construction of their country and it is a help to our neighborhood country and Muslims who today have a independent and powerful central government and supported by the global community. Therefore the reason of expelling afghans is to develop their country and the only aim is to help Afghanistan if so ,we should change the method of expelling them ,we should not use "force" to do this.

we opened the border of Iran to support the Muslim state of Afghanistan who were dominated by the soviets union, and they came and found job, and they showed their sense of responsibility to our works , married by the Iranian girls ,produced children and treated kindly ,but when US occupied their country and manufacturing has stopped ,we worked hard to and tried to dismiss them, while if the manufacturing and industry in Afghanistan had not been stopped , there would be no reason that afghans who are dismissed came back again.

4-the writer of this article like many other Iranians would not be satisfied when a number of non-Iranian live illegally in our suburbs and villages while they are serviced without paying any tax or charges ,therefore we could easily legislate some rules and run it that could help afghans to enter to Iran legally and in return to the services that we offer them they could pay something like taxes ,but also this would cause some tensions over the laboring system.

5-in any case they are many afghans who are living and working illegally in Iran and forms many families, and the government is trying to expel them under any sorts of condition, Is this fair that in this situation their families especially their children be under pressure .The reality is that the situation of afghan's life in metropolitans and also in small cities ,are regretful. But even in such a difficult situation, they have many intelligent and smart children and if the situation gone as their wishes, many of them could reach to high and advanced levels, as the children of many political figures of Afghanistan who were allowed to educate in Iran, reached many great levels and today they are served to their country.

6-preventing from education of afghan children, that could be result in lagging behind of many talented-Muslims from educating, has many bad effects. Does preventing afghan children from education could force Afghans to back to their land?

Is it fair to punish the child of a father who committed a crime? Do afghan children who have not any role to be in Iran or to come back must be forbidden from education?

7-suppose that thanks to this plan that forbids afghan children to study, we could expel all of them from Iran. Do you know that in a short future, like 20 years later, what kind of problems they wouldl make to their neighborhood country, Iran, because of all obstacles which we made for them? Don't these Afghans were our countrymen 130 years ago? Don't we have similar history? Don't many of these great figures of art and culture of Iran were originally afghan? So , why we are willing to expel these Farsi-spoken Afghans while it could cause that they hate us. Can we forbid those individuals who are in love with education, to educate and force them to accept that there are friendships and concord among us? Is this mean Islamic solidarity? I hope that the official reconsider their decision.

Written by: Mustsfa Ezade                                          Translated by:Muhammad