Iran Press/ Iran News: The British government has announced that it intends to relocate asylum seekers to the African country of Rwanda to counter the growing trend of immigration to the country via the high-risk English Channel.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has called the move, which has less clear legal implications, a crackdown on traffickers.
The spokesman for the Iranian government Ali Bahadori Jahromi, on his Twitter, said: "While the UK intends to send asylum seekers to Rwanda under human rights pretexts, Iran has hosted Afghan refugees and asylum seekers for years, even under severe sanctions and without international assistance."
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Saeed Khatibzadeh, also said on Friday that the British government's plan to forcibly send asylum seekers to Rwanda is in violation of international obligations and responsibilities.
Khatibzadeh stated that considering asylum seekers as commodities, and acts of violence and maltreatment against them are against human dignity, adding that the British government's plan to deport asylum seekers comes at a time when the UK and other Western countries have always ignored the Islamic Republic of Iran's efforts to manage and care for millions of refugees and asylum seekers.
Britain intends to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda, while most of the refugees around the world have been displaced by foreign military strikes, some of which have been sponsored or led by the United States, Britain and France. 219
