Hussain Hazbavi 
Iran expelled more than 1.8 million undocumented migrants who are mainly Afghans over the past year, an interior ministry official said on Sunday, adding that at least 800,000 more must leave under the government’s removal plan.
The program began with classifying migrants into legal and illegal groups to provide services to the former and facilitate the return of the latter, Nader Yarahmadi, Head of the Interior Ministry’s Center for Foreign Nationals and Migrants.
“From the total 1,833,636 undocumented migrants who left, 1.2 million departures occurred this year alone,” Yarahmadi said.
“More than 70 percent of these undocumented migrants went back home with their families,” he said.
Yarahmadi added that the expulsions are not over. “At least 800,000 more people must be removed as undocumented migrants, which is on the agenda in the next phases,” he said.
