Iranians in Malaysia comprise students and business students, expatriates, and business owners.
Migration history
As of 2011, there were approximately 60,000 Iranians studying or working. They have shares on 2,000 Malaysian businesses and occupy about 15,000 spots in Malaysian universities.
Naturalisation is uncommon; as Christoph Marcinowski of the
Middle East Institute
The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank and cultural center in Washington, D.C., founded in 1946. It seeks to "increase knowledge of the Middle East among the United States citizens and promote a better understa ...
observed, "it is very difficult for any foreign-born national, including Iranians, to obtain Malaysian citizenship".
See also
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Iran–Malaysia relations
References
{{Ethnic groups in Malaysia
Iranian
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
Iran–Malaysia relations
Immigration to Malaysia