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REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS. IRAN.
1.
The annual rate for applications for asylum from Iranians is 1,000-1,500, the peak year being in 1982 when there were 2,280.
2. Approximately half the applications are made from third countries, mainly Pakistan but some from Turkey, Iraq and Syria.
3. The usual reasons given are to avoid the war (not stated quite so frankly), to avoid arrest for political activity counter to the present regime, or for belonging to persecuted religious minorities.
5 November 1986
CC:
C Bird
Middle East Department W96
233 5685
Assistant in APD
Mr Machin, ODA
Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers
MVD, SAD, SED, WED,
HKD, SEAD, EAD, SAFD,
CAFD, International and Europe Unit,
ECD (P)
ECD (I)