Iran Press/ Iran News: Mousavi said that Iranian border guards have denied the occurrence of any incident on the territory of our country.
While expressing his condolences to the families of the victims, Mousavi stated, "We have overviewed the situation in cooperation with the Afghan authorities in order to understand the importance of the issue and to obtain accurate information on how this incident occurred on Afghan soil."
Some anti-Iran TV channels have claimed about 50 Afghan migrants crossing into Iran illegally were beaten and thrown into a river by Iranian border guards.
Earlier the Border Guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran have dismissed allegations that Iranian border guards detained and tortured illegal Afghan migrants on the Iranian-Afghan border.
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The Border Guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran have dismissed allegations that Iranian border guards detained illegal Afghan migrants on the Iranian-Afghan border.
Meanwhile, Afghan acting foreign minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said that speculations about the alleged detention and torture of illegal Afghan migrants at the Iranian-Afghan border by Iranian border guards should be avoided.
Mohammed Hanif Atmar has also assigned a delegation to look into the reports, the foreign ministry’s statement said.
Afghanistan shares more than 500 miles of border with Iran. About three million Afghans -a mix of refugees and illegal migrants- live in Iran, a large number of them having arrived after their country plunged into conflict in the 1980s.
Young Afghans constantly flow across the border to seek work, many of them smuggled through dangerous deserts, often traveling for a week at a time packed into the back of pick-up trucks.
In recent months, after the outbreak of coronavirus, the flow was reversed. Between January and April, about 240,000 Afghans had returned from Iran.
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