It was the second month of the winter season in Afghanistan, when I went to the house of my cousin, who was staying in a rented room with her nine years old daughter. When I asked whether she received any phone calls from her husband in Iran, unlike the rest of days, her face flashed with delight and happiness, she turned to me and said, "Yah, he will return to Afghanistan soon". "My God, I am so happy.

After being away from each other almost for a year, he will come back to me", she expressed with unimaginable bliss and joy in her voice. After that day, time and again, I made phone calls and went to her house, asking about her husband, but her answer was that his Iranian boss rejected to pay his money.

A month ago, she called and told me that her husband finally returned to Afghanistan and I had to go for his greetings. Few days ago, when I got free and went to their house, I asked him about Afghan refugees' condition in Iran.

Like the rest of returnees, I could not find a dot of happiness in his entire dairy of staying in Iran. Mocking, humiliation, psychological pressure, and various other types of physical and psychological tortures have become parts of Afghans' daily life in Iran.

There is no difference between a civilian and government employee. Each deems humiliating and teasing Afghan people as a sign of moral excellence. My cousin said that after months of tricking, finally he became disappointed and forget all about his money.

She said that when he returned back, he brought only 15000 Afghanis ($300 US) with himself and the employer did not pay his money, which was more than twenty thousand dollars. "$300 US was also part of the money the employer paid him to pay the wages of other simple manual labors, not of his own salary", she expressed with pain.

As you know, his case is not exceptional. There are reports that payment of salary of Afghan labors depend to will and gentleness of the employer. If an employer avoids paying his Afghani labor, technically there is nothing the Afghan labor can do to take his money from the boss.

According to approved laws, Afghan refugees legally can work only in those fields where the shortages of Iranian labors are felt. They can work only in stone factories, constructions, municipalities, brick baking and agriculture. Initially, they could work in bakeries, but now they cannot because they are not observing sanitation-related issues.

Another word, they are deemed "dirty". These jobs are also for legal refugees and they are not entitled to least humanitarian rights. Even for primary education, unlike Iranians, Afghans have to pay fee which is quite high that technically leaves all Afghan children out of the school.

It should be noticed once again that even this is the opportunity for those who legally stay in the country, not for around two million illegal refugees who were forced to leave the country due to years of civil war, political instability and cruel poverty and economic miseries.

Additionally, according to unapproved documents, tens of thousands of Afghan refugees got married during past several decades with Iranian girls. As a result, there are thousands of children with Afghan father and Iranian mothers.

They are also damned by the regime and cannot receive Iranian identity cards. Thus, similar to rest of Afghan refugees' children, they are also deprived of public services and other social advantages that a citizen possesses by birth.

On Monday, May 28, the general directorate of Bureau of Aliens and foreign immigrants, Mr. Mohammad Tahori, told to a state-run Mehr News agency that according to plan around 200 thousand bachelor Afghans left the country. He added the remaining also have one month to leave the country otherwise would be forced out.

According to report, he also mentioned that legal scheduled period for Afghans have ended in Qazwin, Bushehr, Mazindaran, Qum, Yazd and several other provinces. It means if an Afghan citizen still have not got out of those provinces, than he will be persecuted by security forces.

However, Afghan refugees have been never welcomed in Islamic republic, but the problem has doubled since 2001. Officials frequently claim that Afghan refugees have grasped job opportunity of common Iranians and affected the value of its currency due to high amount of cash transfer to their country.

Mr. President Ahmadinejad once reacted angrily against a BBC journalist about Afghan refugees' heart-breaking condition. He defended his regime and said that Afghans have become owner of the house and their Iranian hosts guests in their own countries. Anyhow, after the direct involvement of international community in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of refugees returned to the country.

The Islamic republic also tried to impose severe condition for their possible stay in the country in order to force them out. But, unfortunately, due to instability and high unemployment rate, tens of thousands of people re-migrated.

Additionally, the recent diplomatic tension between Kabul and Tehran has further complicated the situation for refugees. There were reports about Tehran's struggle to prevent the signing of long-term strategic cooperation contract with the United States, which was widely reflected in Afghan media.

As a result, the Afghan ambassador was summoned to foreign ministry to answer what Tehran officials called as anti-Iran propaganda. The continuance of such tense diplomatic relation would anger the regime to tighten the circle around Afghan refugees. Thus, Afghan government should talk with Iranian officials or ask for assistance from international community to solve the problem, otherwise the mass expel of refugees from Pakistan and Iran would prove tragic.