The Iranians started coming to Sweden after the Iranian revolution in 1979 and during the Iran–Iraq war, the majority arriving as political refugees: many of them were highly educated; and some belonged to the Kurdish minority.
The very first wave of Iranian refugees consisted of 5,000 Iranian refugees who fled to Sweden in 1979-1980 most of them were middle-aged, middle-class Pahlavi supporters who were opposing the revolution. When the Iran-Iraq War broke out in 1980, almost 20,000 Iranian citizens found asylum in Sweden.
Sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran have stated the United States has the highest number of Iranians outside the country, stating 1,500,000 Iranians who were born in Iran are living in the U.S. However this number only represents Iranian born population who moved to the U.S. at some point and does not ...
Iranians in Sweden are a part of our community, calling cities such as Goteborg, Uppsala, Stockholm, and many others home. You can use InterNations to look for fellow Iranians in Stockholm, for example.
Sweden and Pahlavi Iran established diplomatic relations in connection with the conclusion of a treaty of friendship in 1929. Iran operates an embassy in Stockholm and Sweden operates an embassy in Tehran.
Syria and Iran are strategic allies. Syria is often called Iran's "closest ally", the Arab nationalism ideology of Syria's ruling Baath party notwithstanding.
Iran has a GDP per capita of $12,400 as of 2020, while in Sweden, the GDP per capita is $50,700 as of 2020.
Iranians in Germany are referred to by hyphenated terms such as Iranian-Germans or Persian-Germans. Similar terms Iranisch Deutsch and Persisches Deutsch, may be found in Germanophone media. In 2022, Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis) estimates that 304,000 people of Iranian background live in Germany.
Although the largest number of Iranian immigrants and Iranian diaspora communities are concentrated in North America (in the United States and Canada) significant populations reside in Europe (France, United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden), Asia, the Middle East and Australia.
In contrast, Iranian men can marry Muslim women or non-Muslim women or Iranian or non-Iranian women to marry a foreigner in Iran without permission from the Ministry of the Interior. Iranian women living abroad may want to marry foreign men.
About half of them are located in Western Europe, and another 40% in Northern Europe. The largest Iranian community in Europe is in Germany (152.000 Iranians), followed by the United Kingdom (83.000) and Sweden (79.000).
The majority of the population of Iran (approximately 67–80%) consists of Iranic peoples. The largest groups in this category include Persians (who form the majority of the Iranian population) and Kurds, with smaller communities including Gilakis, Mazandaranis, Lurs, Tats, Talysh, and Baloch.
People born in Syria made up the largest group of Sweden's foreign-born population in 2022. Nearly 200,000 people born in Syria lived in Sweden as of 2022. Iraqi made up the second largest group of foreign-born citizens, followed by Sweden's neighboring country Finland.
Migration history
Many of the Arabs in Sweden are migrants from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Saudi Arabia. In September 2013, Swedish migration authorities ruled that all Syrian asylum seekers will be granted permanent residency in light of the worsening conflict in Syria.
The majority of immigrants moving to Sweden in 2022 were Swedes returning to Sweden. Nearly 9,900 Swedes returned to their home country in 2022. The remaining top five countries of origin were India, Poland, Germany, and Syria. In total, 102,400 people immigrated to Sweden in 2022.
Sunni and Shi'i are the two largest branches of Islam, with the overwhelming majority of Iranians practicing Shi'i Islam. About 90 percent of Iranians practice Shi'ism, the official religion of Iran. [i] By contrast, most Arab states in the Middle East are predominantly Sunni.
Over 1 million Iranian Sayyids are of Arab descent but most are Persianized, mixed and consider themselves Persian and Iranian today. The majority of Sayyids migrated to Iran from Arab lands predominantly in the 15th to 17th centuries during the Safavid era.
Almost all Iranians as Muslim, with 90–95% thought to associate themselves with the official state religion – Shia Islam – and about 5–10% with the Sunni and Sufi branches of Islam. 99.8% of Iranians identifying as Muslim.
Renaissance Europe (re)discovered Persia and its language. Despite the supposed Semitic nature of Persian, some striking lexical similarities between this language and the Germanic languages became unmistakable to many Western scholars.
Iran Tourist Visa for German Citizens. To apply for an Iranian Tourist Visa German citizens need a Visa Authorization Code/Visa Grant Notice from one of the authorized local travel companies. An authorization code is a letter of approval of your Iran visa application.
No, “Slav” is inherently a linguistic term. The Slavic language family, similar to the Romantic, Germanic and Celtic is broken up among various nations and people the “west” Slavs (Poles, Czechs Slovaks) “east” (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian) and “south” (Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian-Macedonian).
The Persian Empire obtained much of its wealth as a result of its prolific crops. Even some of the most urban cities in the empire relied on agriculture.
The economy of Sweden is a highly developed export-oriented economy, aided by timber, hydropower, and iron ore. These constitute the resource base of an economy oriented toward foreign trade.
Iran has a GDP per capita of $12,400 as of 2020, while in Germany, the GDP per capita is $50,900 as of 2020.