Iran’s Minister of Education Ali Asghar Fani stressed that $670 are spent on the education of each student during one school year; “in the current academic year, nearly 800 million dollars have been dedicated to the education of foreign students in Iranian schools,” he noted.
The education minister further asserted that “for the current academic year around 48 thousand Afghan students have enrolled in Iranian schools and the figure has become greater compared to last year.”
The managing director of Association for Protection of Refugee Women and Children (HAMI) had said earlier that the ministry’s figures on education costs of Afghan students are ambiguous and only 10 per cent of illegal Afghan children have managed to enroll in schools. “Everyone is responsible for their words and we are not accountable for what they others’ comments,” Fani reacted to the comments.
Based on an order by Leader of the Islamic Revolution ayatollah Khamenei, Afghan students enjoy free education the same way Iranian students do.
