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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]
Furthermore, Jews had also been present in Iraq in significant numbers historically, and Iraq had the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, but their population dwindled, after virtually all of them migrated to Israel between 1949 and 1952. From 1949 to 1951, 104,000 Jews were evacuated from Iraq in Operations Ezra and Nechemia (named ...
Iran's population increased dramatically during the later half of the 20th century, reaching about 80 million by 2016. [1] [2] As of November 2024, Iran's population is around 91.5 million. [3] In recent years, however, Iran's birth rate has dropped significantly. Studies project that Iran's rate of population growth will continue to slow until ...
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Iraq, [a] officially the Republic of Iraq, [b] is a country in the Middle East and 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.