Iran struggles with a lack of hands to work. This is the result of the deportation of Afghans

After the authorities in Tehran's deportant, the economy of Iran is struggling with severe labor shortage by the authorities in Tehran. Key branches of industry, such as construction and agriculture, feel problems with functioning – reported Iran International on Wednesday.

“In the industrial city of Abbasabad, almost everything was closed today,” wrote Iranian economist Mohammad-Hoseyj Mesbah on the website X, quoted by the portal. “Why? Lack of hands to work. Everywhere job ads, not a single employee,” he added.

Mesbah called the deportation of Afghans “economic suicide.”

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For decades, Afghans were the basis of the Iranian labor market, doing low -paid classes that Iranians did not want to take on. Their sudden disappearance threatens the country's economic growth.

Before the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the Afghans' population in Iran rarely exceeded 2 million, but under the rule of the former president Ebrahim Raisi, this number increased to over 7 million – reminded the portal. The media began to write more and more often that the inhabitants are dissatisfied with the presence of refugees. Social pressure forced the president of Masuda Pezeszkianie a change in attitude. Tehran has been deported by Afghanistan citizens since last year.

The authorities say that over a million migrants have left the last hundred days.

The owner of an industrial workshop told the newspaper “Shargh” that currently even legally employed Afghans give up work in fear. – We still have no replacement and nobody responds to our job ads – he added.

In connection with ongoing deportations, construction projects got stuck in place, and labor costs increased by 30-50 percent. – the portal informed. Farmers report delays in collections, including Pistachios and saffron – two, except for oil, leading Iranian export goods. In Tehran, after the deportation of hundreds of Afghan streets, piles of garbage appeared in some districts – the portal noted. (PAP)

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