TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has deported 160,000 Afghans it says were living illegally in the country since April, but the pace of expulsions has slowed "drastically" to around a thousand in the last few days, a U.N. official said on Monday.
Despite Afghanistan's appeals to stem the tide, Iran launched a major campaign on April 21 to round up illegal Afghan workers and bus them back to their war-ravaged homeland. They are estimated to number around 1 million people.
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