KABUL: Following the forced deportation of Afghan migrants from Iran, the municipality of Tehran has struggled to attract a new workforce.
The analytical website Khabarpo, citing the AANA news agency, reported on Friday night, that the forced expulsion of Afghan migrants and the municipality’s failure to recruit new workers have significantly impacted the services of this institution across the capital, visibly contributing to urban pollution.
The report states that a substantial portion of urban services in Tehran was previously managed by contracts with foreign citizens.
After the forced deportation of Afghan migrants, these services have become severely hindered.
Tehran’s mayor, Ali Zaakani, noted that part of the issues in urban services and cleanliness arises from a shortage of sanitation workers, as many foreign employees have left the country.
According to published information, the municipality has offered a salary of 20 million tomans per month but has been unable to recruit 10,000 new service workers from domestic sources.
This comes at a time when, in the first five months of the current solar year, approximately one million Afghan migrants have been deported from Iran through the Islam Qala border in Herat province.