{"id":13670,"date":"2013-05-11T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/13670-iranian-regime-kills-at-least-9-afghan-migrants"},"modified":"2023-01-14T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:53:10","slug":"iranian-regime-kills-at-least-9-afghan-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/iranian-regime-kills-at-least-9-afghan-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian regime kills at least 9 Afghan migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption alignleft size-full wp-image-39804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/afghan-herat.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"File photo: Afghans protest against Iranian regime\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>HERAT (Reuters): Iranian guards fired on a large group of Afghan migrants illegally crossing the border overnight, killing at least nine people, Afghan officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Hostility to the US role in Afghanistan, regional ambitions and an economy choked by Western sanctions have contributed to a tough Iranian policy against Afghan migrants who flee war and seek work in their more prosperous neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Interior Ministry in Tehran refused to comment. Iranian officials in Kabul could not be reached.<\/p>\n<p>Around 300 Afghan men were trying to make their way from Afghanistan\u2019s western Farah province into Iranian territory when the guards opened fire, witnesses and officials said. \u201cNine Afghans were killed, but the number may increase,\u201d said Abdul Samad Khan, district governor of Lash-e-Joveyn in Farah province near the Iranian border.<\/p>\n<p>Farah police chief Abdul Hakim Angar put the death toll at 10 and eight wounded. Five wounded men lay in hospital beds in the provincial capital Farah, their feet and heads bound in bandages, TV footage showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERAT (Reuters): Iranian guards fired on a large group of Afghan migrants illegally crossing the border overnight, killing at least nine people, Afghan officials said yesterday. 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