Since early June, tens of thousands of Afghans have left Iran and poured into Afghanistan’s western province of Herat. At 13, Mohammad is among the many Afghan children who have been deported over the last year – children represent some 25% of the total number of deportees. Like most other Afghan children, Mohammad was banned from public education in Iran simply for being Afghan. Since then, more than one million Afghans, including those with official registration, have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan. “The forced evictions of Afghan refugees from Iran and the entailing humanitarian crisis inside Afghanistan have gravely saddened me,” Azizi told The New Humanitarian via phone.