Link to Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/10/aid-groups-says-4000-5000-afghans-crossing-into-iran-daily
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has stated that 4,000-5,000 Afghans have been crossing into neighboring Iran daily since the Taliban seized Afghanistan in August, with thousands more expected to arrive this Winter. The group has suggested that Iran needs much more help from the International help, with them already receiving 300,000 refugees, all with a struggling economy of their own. Iran and Pakistan together house about 90 percent of the five million Afghans displaced outside their country after the Taliban seized control and sent the country into turmoil. UN agencies say as many as 22.8 million people – more than half of Afghanistan’s 39 million population – are facing acute food insecurity compared with 14 million just two months ago, possible causing a massive humanitarian event in the country and with the surrounding refugees.
I believe the international community absolutely has to help the surrounding countries as this is not a small amount of people, and these countries are not completely financially capable of handling this amount of people in the first place. I believe that the United States should help especially, although I doubt they help Iran with anything, since this is sort of our fault in the first place. I am not completely sure what we could do as a country to help the surrounding countries but we should not stand idle and let this snowball into something much bigger than it has to be. This many refugees going into some of these countries after a large amount of Syrian refugees went into these same countries just a few years ago could cause a major event, so we should attempt to get out in front of this as quick as we can.
This relates to what we are discussing in class as it is discussing whether other countries will get any benefit out of helping prop up these surrounding countries to help them deal with these refugees.