Raeisi reaffirms his government’s obligation to defend rights of Iranians abroad
President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Iranian government feels obliged to defend the rights of all Iranians who are living outside the country, reaffirming the need to safeguard their Iranian identity.
“We consider Iranians abroad as our citizens. We believe that Iranians residing abroad have rights, and the government has responsibilities [towards them], just as the government has obligations towards Iranians living inside the country,” Raeisi said at a gathering of non-resident Iranians in Tehran on Wednesday.
The president added that safeguarding the Iranian identity is a paramount issue for Iranians living abroad, stressing that children of Iranians living outside the country should not be oblivious to their Iranian identity.
Millions of Iranians are living in different countries across the world. Iranian officials, including President Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, have repeatedly advocated the need to support them and resolve issues facing them.
Last year at a summit in Doha, President Raeisi described the Iranians living abroad as "assets", calling on them to make effort to preserve the culture of their homeland while living abroad.
He noted that the Islamic Republic has taken measures in order to remove obstacles to the presence of Iranians residing in other countries.
Also last year, during a meeting with Iranians living in the US city of New York, President Raeisi emphasized their right to travel to their homeland and noted that no Iranian is prohibited from entering the country.
Apart from the president, other top Iranian officials have also defended the rights of Iranians residing abroad on multiple occasions.
In a meeting with a group of Iranians living in Budapest last October, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs Ali Bagheri Kani stressed that the government uses all its capacities as well as political and legal tools to safeguard the rights of its people anywhere in the world.
“The government does not tolerate violation of the rights of Iranians anywhere in the world,” he noted at the time.
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