Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
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Germany
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as well as their descendants of Iranian heritage or background.
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
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media. In 2021,
Federal Statistical Office of Germany
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The Office is responsible for collecting, processing, presenting and ...
(Destatis) estimates that 272,000 people of Iranian background live in Germany.
Multiple Nationality
Nowadays, most Iranian-Germans have German and Iranian citizenship (multiple nationality). Iran almost never frees its citizens from their Iranian citizenship (see Article 989 Iran. Civil Code Iranian Civil Code. O Raahesh Website), which is inherited through the father (or descent). The still existing German-Iranian agreement of 1929 Settlement Agreement between the German Reich and the Empire of Persia from 1929 regulates in no. II of the Final Protocol that government approval is required prior to the naturalization of nationals of the other State.
Notable Iranians in Germany
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Asians in Germany
Asians in Germany or German Asians (german: Deutsch-Asiaten) are German citizens of full or partial Asian descent. The term ''Asian German'' is also applied to foreign residents of Asian origin living in the Federal Republic of Germany. German ...
Iranian diaspora
Iranian diaspora refers to Iranian people or those who are of Iranian ancestry living outside Iran.Ethnic groups in Germany
Germany
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