Iraqi Moaveds () are a group of 350,000-650,000 Iraqi citizens of Persian descent who were deported from

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

by the Ba'athist regime because of their Iranian ancestry. Hundreds of thousands of Shia Iraqis of Iranian ancestry whose families had resided in Iraq for many generations were expelled from Iraq in the early 1970s and early 1980s before the Iran-Iraq War. The exact number of deportations is not clear and ranges from 350,000U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
/ref> to 650,000. Most of them could prove Iranian ancestry in the court received Iranian citizenship (400,000) and some of them returned to Iraq after Saddam's fall. Many Iraqi Moaveds hold or have held high positions in the government of the

Islamic Republic of Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

such as Shahroudi (head of Judicial system of Iran), General Mohammad Reza Naqdi (commander of the

Basij The Basij (, lit. ''The Mobilization'') or Sâzmân-e Basij-e Mostaz'afin (, lit. ''Organization for Mobilization of the Oppressed''), is a paramilitary volunteer militia within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and one of its five ...

paramilitary force), Hamid-Reza Assefi and Ali Akbar Salehi (Minister of Foreign Affairs).

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Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

Iran–Iraq relations Iranian people of Iraqi descent

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