Moaved

Iraqi Moaveds (Persian: معاودین عراقی) are a group of Iraqi refugees in Iran who were expelled from Iraq because of their suspected Iranian origin during Iraqi Ba'ath Party role . Thousands of Shiʿites, many of them of Iranian origin but whose families had resided for generations in the Shiʿite religious centers of Karbala and Najaf, were expelled from Iraq , in the early 1970s ^[1] and before Iraq-Iran war .The exact number of this group is not clear and ranging from 350,000^[2] to 650,000.^[3]Many of them who could prove an Iranian origin in the court get Iranian citizenship (400,000) and some of them get back to Iraq after Saddam .^[3]

Many Iraqi Moaveds hold or have held high positions in the government of Islamic Republic of Iran such as Shahroudi (head of Judicial system of Iran), General Mohammad Reza Naqdi (commander of the Basij paramilitary force) , Hamid-Reza Assefi and Salehi (Minister of Foreign Affairs).

See also

• Iraqis in Iran
• Iranian Arabs

References

1. ^ M. GIELING, SASKIA. "IRAQ vii. IRAN-IRAQ WAR". Encyclopædia Iranica. http://iranica.com/articles/iraq-vii-iran-iraq-war. Retrieved 2011-06-15. 
2. ^ U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
3. ^ ^{a b} Hamshahri Newspaper (In Persian)