Iranian Immigrants

United States was found and shaped by immigrants. Other than Native Americans, United States population is made of immigrants from other countries such as England, Ireland, French, Spain, Russia, and lot more. As time passed, the number or immigrants started to increase. Some of these immigrations were for pleasure as others were forced. Not all of them have the same reasons. This paper focuses on the less known immigrants from Middle East, Iranian, and the reason why they immigrated to the United States.
Iran is a very small country, with a population of nearly eighty- million people. Born and raised in Iran, I surely can tell a lot about Iran and the people. But what always grabbed my attention was to figure out who were the first people who immigrated to the United States, and what were their reasons. For every immigrant, there are many reasons that he or she chooses to leave his or her hometown and belongings to immigrate to another country, in this case United States. Same goes for Iranians. The first, and probably the less known pull to the United States was Education. Many people wanted to travel to the United States in hopes for a better education. To be more specific, the growth of the Iranian immigrants started after World War II. As Ali Modarres says in his …show more content…
began to grow after World War II and despite the turbulent relationship between the two countries during various