Afghans leaving country wrecked by Taliban

 Fox News:

Over the course of an hour on a recent night, the bus waiting in the Herat station filled with passengers. Mostly young men, they had no luggage, just the clothes on their backs, maybe a bag with some bread and water for the long road ahead of them.

That road is leading them to Iran.

Every day, multiple buses rumble out of Afghanistan’s western city of Herat, carrying hundreds of people to the border. There they disembark, connect with their smugglers and trek for days, sometimes crammed into pickup trucks bumping through wastelands, sometimes on foot through treacherous mountains in the darkness, eluding guards and thieves.

MASS STARVATION LOOMS IN AFGHANISTAN AS HALF THE COUNTRY FACES HUNGER UNDER TALIBAN RULE

Once in Iran, most will stay there to look for work. But a few hope to go farther.

"We’re going to get to Europe," said Haroun, a 20-year-old sitting in the bus next to his friend Fuad. Back in their village there is no work. "We have no choice, the economy here is a wreck. Even if it means our death on the way, we accept that."

Afghans are streaming across the border into Iran in accelerating numbers, driven by desperation. Since the Taliban takeover in mid-August, Afghanistan’s economic collapse has accelerated, robbing millions of work and leaving them unable to feed their families. In the past three months, more than 300,000 people have crossed illegally into Iran, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council, and more are coming at the rate of 4,000 to 5,000 a day.

The European Union is now bracing for a potential swell in Afghans trying to reach its shores at a time when EU nations are determined to lock down against migrants in general.
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It is also another reminder of Biden's Afghan screw-up.  It is also interesting that they are going into Iran and not Pakistan which is something of a Taliban ally.  They are also not trying to get into China or other bordering countries.  Iran is also a poor country since the genocidal religious bigots took over it.  Their route to Europe is likely to be torturous and difficult.

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