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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T06:36:09.000Z",
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    "Tobias Ellwood, a former Conservative MP, told GB News",
    "Epping Council launches legal challenge to ruling against plan to close asylum hotel",
    "People smuggler ran small-boat crossings operation from French prison",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nIranian migrants are massing along the French coast, with plans to cross the English Channel.\n\nTwo dozen men and women, all in their twenties, fled the Islamic Republic only days ago.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThey now sit in a corner of the Jungle, a migrant settlement in Loon-Plage, northern France.\n\nOne migrant, sitting in the corner known as Eastern Kurdistan, said \"there are many more on their way\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nInternational experts have warned the conflict in Iran could send an \"unprecedented\" amount of migrants into Europe's borders.\n\nIf just 10 per cent of Iran's 90 million people were displaced, it would rival some of the largest refugee movements this century.\n\nTobias Ellwood, a former Conservative MP, told GB News: \"You can't just affect a country by bombs alone and expect it to all end well.\"\n\nThe first wave of migrants from Iran have already began to emerge as a result of the Iranian regime's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests and the fallout of the 12-day war with Israel last year.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nJiletni, 21, told The Times that he did not flee due to military action.\n\nRather, he fled with friend Fatah to escape the Iranian regime's \"constant surveillance\".\n\nHe hails from Kermanshah in the Kurdish region of Iran, where more than 40 protesters were shot in the city by security forces, according to reports.\n\nIranians accounted for 11 per cent of the over 41,000 migrants who arrived in Britain through the Channel last year.\n\n### LATEST MIGRANT CRISIS NEWS:\n\n\n\n\n  * Epping Council launches legal challenge to ruling against plan to close asylum hotel\n  * People smuggler ran small-boat crossings operation from French prison\n  * French authorities lambasted after people smuggler found carrying out operation from PRISON\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThey also became the most common nationality to arrive at British airports without documentation.\n\nAnother Iranian immigrant Muhammed, 24, introduced a new group of Iranian arrivals to the facilities in the camp.\n\nSpeaking to them Farsi, he pointed them towards food stalls run by local charities.\n\nHe told The Times that he would be killed if he returns to Iran for his activism, and added that it is likely his friends and family have been killed in air strikes conducted by American and Israeli forces.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBetween 2015 and 2024, 62,000 Iranians applied for asylum in the UK, according to the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.\n\nSome 590 migrants crossed the Channel on February 25, the biggest one-day surge this year.\n\nSenior maritime sources told GB News at the time that it was likely there would be \"another record year\" for illegal small boat crossings.\n\nThe International Organisation for Migration, a UN body, has appealed for de-escalation in the Middle East, with fears that ongoing military escalation would add to the 19 million refugees already displaced due to \"conflict, violence, and disasters\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Iranian migrants massing along French coast with plan to cross English Channel"
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