Armenian-Iranians
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Armenian-Iranians (Armenian: "Պարսկահայ" translit. Parskahay) are ethnic Armenians who live in Iran. Their current population is somewhere around 200,000. They mostly live in Tehran and Isfahan Jolfa. The Armenian-Iranians were very influential and active in the modernization of Iran during the 19th and 20th centuries. After the Iranian Revolution, many Armenians immigrated to Armenian Diasporic communities in North America and western Europe. Today the Armenians are Iran's largest Christian religious minority.
Notable Armenian-Iranians
- Andranik Eskandarian – football player for the national team of Iran, became a U.S. citizen in 1984
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr – bishop and activist for the Iranian Christian minority
- Loris Tjeknavorian – classical composer
- Yeprem Khan - revolutionary leader of Iran.
- Edmund Bezik - national soccer star
- Andranik Teymourian - national soccer star
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