Hundreds of migrants seek UN aid to escape war-torn Iran

The UN migration agency said it was helping some vulnerable migrants caught up in the Middle East war to leave Iran and received requests to assist hundreds of others, France 24 reports.

The United Nations agency said it "stands ready to support migrants and other third-country nationals caught in the crisis".

"We have already assisted some migrants to return home from Iran," David John, IOM's director of resettlement and movement management, told reporters in Geneva.

"The requests now are in the hundreds (and) the number is increasing by the day," he said, without providing details on the nationalities assisted or requesting help.

John said assistance requests from migrants' home countries could soon be "in the thousands".

By Vafa Guliyeva