| Group: | Iraqi Persians |
| Popplace: | Karbalā', Najaf, Baghdad, Suleymaniyah, Maysan, Basra |
| Region1: |  Iraq |
| Pop1: | 486,000 |
| Pop2: | 400,000 |
| Rels: | Shiʿa Islam, Sunni Islam |
| Languages: | Persian, Mesopotamian Arabic, Kurdish |
| Related: | 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, are Iraqi citizens of Iranian background. Iranians have had a long presence in Iraq, since the Fall of Babylon.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Saddam Hussein exiled between 350,000[2] [3] to 650,000 Iraqi citizens of Iranian ancestry.[4] 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.[4] The population of Iraqis of Iranian descent is currently 486,000 (not including Iranian residents in Iraq).
Most Feiyli Iraqis belong to, the same religious sect that most Iraqis and Iranis belong to.
While the Iraq side of Kurds on the other hand follow mostly Sunni Islam.