| Regions with significant populations | |
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| Karbalā',Najaf,Baghdad,Suleymaniyah,Maysan,Basra | |
 Iraq | 286,000 |
 Iran | 400,000[1] |
| Languages | |
| Persian,Mesopotamian Arabic,Kurdish | |
| Religion | |
| Twelver Shiʿa Islam[2] (minoritySunni 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), areIraqi citizens ofIranian background. Iranians have had a long presence inIraq, going back to theFall of Babylon.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Iranians took refuge inOttoman Iraq and lived in exile in cities such asNajaf,Karbala andBaghdad.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s,Saddam Husseinexiled between 350,000[3][4][5] to 650,000 Iraqi citizens ofIranian ancestry.[1] Most of them went to Iran. Most could prove their Iranian ancestry in Iranian courts and therefore received Iranian citizenships (400,000). Following Saddam's fall, some returned to Iraq.[1] The population of Iraqis of Iranian descent is currently 486,000[citation needed] (not including Iranian residents in Iraq).
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