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Iraqi Persians
پارس‌های عراق/ايرانيان عراق (Persian)
فرس العراق / إيرانيو العراق (Arabic)

Lion and Sun still used by Iraqi Persians
Regions with significant populations
Karbalā', Najaf, Baghdad, Suleymaniyah, Maysan, Basra
Iraq	486,000
Iran	400,000
Languages
Persian, Mesopotamian Arabic, Kurdish
Religion
Shiʿa Islam (minority Sunni Islam)
Related ethnic groups
Iranian diaspora (Iranians of UAE • Ajam of Bahrain • Ajam of Qatar • Ajam of Iraq • 'Ajam of Kuwait • Iranians of Canada • Iranians of America • Iranians of UK • Iranians of Germany • Iranians of Israel • Iranians in Turkey) Iranian Peoples (Lurs, Achomis, Baluchs, Kurds, Iranian Azeris), Turkic peoples (Qashqai, Azerbaijanis), Huwala

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

Demographics

Iranic peoples:

• There is a noticeable “Feylie tribe” (Lurs or Kurds) in Iraq, situated between the Iran, Iraq border.

History

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Saddam Hussein exiled between 350,000 to 650,000 Iraqi citizens of Iranian ancestry. 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. The population of Iraqis of Iranian descent is currently 486,000 (not including Iranian residents in Iraq).

Culture

Most Feiyli Iraqis belong to Twelver Shīʿa Islam, the same religious sect that most Iraqis and Iranis belong to.

While the Iraq side of Kurds on the other hand follow mostly Sunni Islam.

See also

• Iranian diaspora
• Moaved
• Medes
• Achaemenid Assyria
• Asuristan
• Parthian Empire
• Baghdad province (Safavid Empire)
• Feyli (tribe)

References

1. ^ "Hamshahri Newspaper (In Persian)". hamshahri.org. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
2. Pahlavan, Demographic Movements in the Region, p. 147.
3. ^ "History – Faili Kurds Association". failykurds.org. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
4. Iranica Online
5. U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)

Read more

• "History – Faili Kurds Association". failykurds.org. Retrieved 2024-12-04.

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