A UN High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Iran has praised the Islamic Republic for its services to millions of foreign refugees.

“The officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have come twice to Iran and evaluated as adequate Iran’s support for refugees,” UNHCR Representative, Carlos Zaccagnini said today according to Fars news agency.
In a meeting in the Northwestern city of Urumiyeh between Iranian officials and ambassadors and diplomats from eight European and American countries as well as a number of UN envoys, Zaccagnini called on international bodies to increase their financial aide to Iranian government considering its efforts to host Iraqi and other nationals over the past years.
The UN official added that the international body would try to convince the refugees living in Iran to return to their home country.
Earlier in November, the UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres, said Iran had offered far more support to Afghan refugees than the whole of the international community. He hailed Iran over its record for generosity in hosting ‘uprooted Afghans’.
Iran has recently donated some $560 million to help reconstruct war-battered Afghanistan. This is while the United States, which launched the war on the country, contributed $296 million to help the reconstruction efforts.
According to the UNHCR, there are one million registered and a further million unregistered Afghan refugees in Iran. There are also an estimated 54,000 registered Iraqi refugees in Iran now; the large majority of them are living outside camps, in urban areas.
(Source: Press TV)