Assyrians in Iran (Persian: آشوریان در ایران) or Iranian Assyrians are an ethnoreligious and linguistic minority in present-day Iran. The Assyrians of Iran are a Semitic people who speak modern Assyrian a neo-Aramaic language descended from Classical Syriac and elements of Akkadian and are Eastern Rite Christians belonging mostly to the Assyrian Church of the East and to a lesser extent to the Chaldean Catholic Church.
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