[2] Swedish-Iranian is used interchangeably with Swedish-Persian,[1][3][4][5] partly due to the fact[6] that, in the Western world, Iran was known as "Persia".
On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran, the endonym of the country used since the Sasanian Empire, in formal correspondence.
[10] The Collins English Dictionary uses a variety of similar and overlapping definitions for the terms "Persian" and "Iranian".
When the Iran-Iraq War broke out in 1980, almost 20,000 Iranian citizens found asylum in Sweden.
Second generation Iranian Swedes are well-represented in higher education and in some well paying professions like dentistry and engineering.