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    Amid a crackdown, Afghan refugees in Iran fear the ‘unthinkable’: Being sent back

    by Omid Khazani and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times Dec 20, 2021 4 minutes

    TEHRAN, Iran — Unlike most of his compatriots, Jamal Papoli didn’t have to worry about being stuck in Afghanistan when the Taliban sped to power in August. Papoli had quit his homeland years ago to set up shop as a stonemason here in neighboring Iran, just outside Tehran.

    But instead of relief, what the 30-year-old father of two feels these days is fear. As one of hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghans in this country, he’s frightened of getting snared in one of the growing number of sweeps by Iranian authorities and sent back to his native land, where an uncertain fate awaits — especially for him as an ethnic Uzbek in a Pashtun-dominated, Taliban-run society.

    After all the previous times Papoli was arrested and deported, he

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