Iran

International Activity Report, 2009 Iran is hosting one of the highest numbers of refugees in the world. The UN refugee agency UNHCR reported more than 930,000 documented Afghan refugees in Iran in 2009, while estimates of undocumented Afghans reached two million.   MSF supplied relief aid to refugees in Zahedan, the capital of the Iranian province of Sistan-Balochistan, where refugees have been crossing the border from Afghanistan for the last 30 years. The number of ‘illegal’ Afghans is estimated to be around 200,000 in the city, and as many as 500,000 in the province.   In Zahedan, MSF runs three medical clinics. In 2009, MSF carried out more than 6,700 consultations a month. A team of social workers...