Afghanistan 0
11 May 2019

A senior Iranian diplomat suggested that "it is not right that the West, the U.S. in particular, impose sanctions and economic pressure on Iran in total disregard of their own responsibility of waging war on a sovereign nation [i.e Afghanistan], displacing multi-million Afghans, making them refugees. Iran spends $8 billion a year to host the Afghan refugees". He went on to add that "the Europeans should also take on responsibility either by paying the cost of the refugees and migrants or by hosting a part of the Afghan community in their own countries". 

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