{"id":72780,"date":"2025-07-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jul\/07\/iran-rushes-deportation-4-million-afghans-deadline-women-repression"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:00:00","slug":"they-threw-us-out-like-garbage-iran-rushes-deportation-of-4-million-afghans-before-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72780","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They threw us out like garbage\u2019: Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of lone women forced to return face extreme repression and destitution under Taliban laws that forbid them to work or travel without a male guardian<\/p>\n<p>Women forced back to living under the Taliban\u2019s increasingly repressive regime have spoken of their desperation as Iran accelerates the deportation of an estimated 4 million Afghans who had fled to the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the past month alone, more than 250,000 people, including thousands of lone women, have returned to Afghanistan from Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iom.int\/news\/record-256000-afghan-migrants-return-iran-iom-warns-dire-funding-shortfall\">according to the UN\u2019s migration agency.<\/a> The numbers accelerated before <a href=\"https:\/\/afghanistan.iom.int\/sites\/g\/files\/tmzbdl1071\/files\/documents\/2025-06\/iom-afghanistanflash-update-1.pdf\">Sunday\u2019s deadline set by the Iranian regime<\/a> for all undocumented Afghans to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jul\/07\/iran-rushes-deportation-4-million-afghans-deadline-women-repression\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of lone women forced to return face extreme repression and destitution under Taliban laws that forbid them to work or travel without a male guardianWomen forced back to living under the Taliban\u2019s increasingly repressive regime have spoken of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,494,61,44,3282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women-under-the-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72781,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72780\/revisions\/72781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}