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A man reacts while walking past collapsed and damaged buildings near Ferdowsi square in Tehran on March 3, 2026. [AFP]
Asylum applications to the EU dropped by almost 20 per cent in 2025, the bloc's asylum agency said Tuesday -- warning however that a crisis in Iran could result in refugee movements of "unprecedented magnitude".
Turmoil in the Islamic republic risked upending a downward trend in requests for protection, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) said, in a report written before the outbreak of the US-Israel war with Iran.
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