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There is a large population of Iraqis in Iran, including Iranian citizens of Iraqi descent and Iraqi citizens of Iranian descent. According to the 2001 Iran census, there were roughly 203,000 Iraqis living in Iran; [ 2 ] a UNHCR report counts 204,000 Iraqis living in Iran. [ 3 ]
The Iraqi diaspora in West Asia is mostly located in Syria, Jordan, Iran and Lebanon, in addition to the well established numbers in the Persian Gulf states and Israel. As a result of the Iraq War , the Iraqi refugee crisis is the largest in West Asia in 60 years, [ 1 ] since 1948 when the State of Israel was established.
Egypt, which has pledged to end Iraqi immigration, already has 150,000 ethnic Iraqi people. The United Kingdom, whose Iraqi population comes largely if not entirely from before the 2003 Iraq War, has a population numbering between 250,000 and half a million. Iran also has approximately 204,000 Iraqi expatriates.
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]
Many historians and anthropologists provide strong circumstantial evidence to posit that Iraq's Marsh Arabs share very strong links to the ancient Sumerians [37] [42] —the oldest human civilization in the world and most ancient inhabitants of central-southern Iraq. The Iraqi-Assyrian population was found to be significantly related to other ...
The First Battle of Khorramshahr was a major battle in the Iran–Iraq War, beginning shortly after the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980. Amidst the gruelling urban warfare in and around the city, Khorramshahr came to be referred to by the Iranians as Khuninshahr (Persian: خونین شهر, lit.
Iraq, [a] officially the Republic of Iraq, [b] is a country in West Asia.It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Saudi Arabia to the south, Iran to the east, Syria to the west, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, and Jordan to the southwest.
Iraqi Arabs are the largest ethnic group in Iraq, [2] followed by Iraqi Kurds, then Iraqi Turkmen as the third largest ethnic group in the country. [3] [4] Studies indicate that Mesopotamian Arabs, who make up the overwhelming majority of Iraq's population, are genetically distinct from other Arab populations in the Arabs of the Arabian ...