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Iraqi Persians
ايرانيان عراق ( Persian)
إيرانيو العراق ( Arabic)
Regions with significant populations
Karbalā', Najaf, Baghdad, Suleymaniyah, Maysan, Basra
  Iraq486,000
  Iran400,000 [1]
Languages
Persian, Mesopotamian Arabic, Kurdish
Religion
Shiʿa Islam [2]
Related ethnic groups
'Ajam of Kuwait

Iraqi Persians ( Persian: ایرانیان عراق, Arabic: إيرانيو العراق) or Iranians in Iraq ( Persian: ایرانیان در عراق, Arabic: الإيرانيون في العراق) are Iraqi citizens of Iranian descent and background. Iranians have had a long presence in Iraq, since the Fall of Babylon.

History

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Saddam Hussein exiled between 350,000 [3] [4] to 650,000 Iraqi citizens of Iranian ancestry. [1] Most of them went to Iran. Most could prove an Iranian ancestry in Iran's court received Iranian citizenship (400,000) and some of them returned to Iraq immediately after his fall. [1] The population of Iraqis of Iranian descent is currently 486,000[ citation needed] (not including Iranian residents in Iraq).

Culture

Most Persian Iraqis belong to Twelver Shīʿa Islam, the same religion that most Iraqis belong to.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Hamshahri Newspaper (In Persian)". hamshahri.org. Retrieved 12 November 2014.[ permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Pahlavan, Demographic Movements in the Region, p. 147.
  3. ^ Iranica Online
  4. ^ U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)[ permanent dead link]
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