Iranians in Iraq

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

Lion and Sun still used by Iraqi Persians[citation needed]
Regions with significant populations
Karbalā', Najaf, Baghdad, Suleymaniyah, Maysan, Basra
Iraq	486,000
Iran	400,000[1]
Languages
Persian, Mesopotamian Arabic, Kurdish
Religion
Twelver Shiʿa Islam[2] (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.

Iranic peoples:

• There is a noticeable “Feylie tribe” (Lurs or Kurds) in Iraq, situated between the Iran, Iraq border.^[3]

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Saddam Hussein exiled between 350,000^[4][5][3] 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).

Most Feiyli Iraqis belong to Twelver Shīʿa Islam, the same religious sect that most Iraqis and Iranis belong to.^[3]

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

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

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