Did you read the article?

While getting an Afghan passport is an arduous task in itself, for many Afghans like Badshah, securing an Iranian visa is next to impossible. This, together with promises of a job, lured him into paying a couple thousand dollars to a people smuggler.

He is paying to be smuggled into Iran. It is like someone paying to be smuggled into the USA.

Not saying that dyncorp isn't corrupt as hell and could be using their logistics connections to traffick people, but from just this article alone it reads like immigration story.