- Source: Iranians in Iraq
Iraqi Persians (Persian: ایرانیان عراق, Arabic: إيرانيو العراق) also known as Iranians in Iraq (Persian: ایرانیان در عراق, Arabic: الإيرانيون في العراق) or the 'Ajam of Iraq, are Iraqi citizens of Iranian or Tajik 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 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 Persian Iraqis belong to Twelver Shīʿa Islam, the same religion that most Iraqis and Iranis belong to.
See also
Iranian diaspora
Moaved
Medes
Achaemenid Assyria
Asuristan
Parthian Empire
Baghdad Province (Safavid Empire)
Feyli (tribe)
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Negara Islam Irak dan Syam
- Iran Raya
- Perang Saudara Irak (2014–2017)
- Pasukan Quds
- Penembakan Shah Cheragh 2022
- Iran
- Operasi Syahid Soleimani
- Rumpun suku bangsa Iran
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Hijab
- Iran–Iraq War
- Iranians in Iraq
- Iran–Iraq relations
- Iraqi invasion of Iran
- Israeli support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq war
- Iraqis in Iran
- United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War
- Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)
- International aid to combatants in the Iran–Iraq War
- Iranian involvement in the Iraq War
