Iran hosting 1.35m Afghans, 40K Iraqis: Official

'From the 1.35 million Afghans about 900 thousand are refugees, and 450 thousand are passport holders; there are a number of illegal ones, whose number is not known,' said Mohammad-Ali Salehi-Najafabadi.

Saying that Afghanistan is a part of the Muslim World and an important neighbor of Iran, Salehi-Najafabadi added that the supreme leader of Iran has ordered that all the Afghan children in Iran should be allowed to education like the Iranians, adding that now there are about 500 Aghan students in Iran.

He also said that the safer Iran's neighbor, the better for Iran, and added Iran is trying to raise a dynamic generation of Afghans to be able to return to their country.

He said once there were about 450 thousand Iraqi refugees in Iran, but after the return of security to Iraq, most of them went back to their country.

There are about 40 thousand Iraqis in Iran now, he said.

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