The most recent settlement occurred in the early 1930s after the imposition of the unveiling law by Reza Shah. A minority of Failaka Island's Kuwaiti families are Shia Persians, they were noted as having their own husayniyyas and the older generations were frequent Arabic speakers, unlike the Kuwaiti Shia of Persian descent in Kuwait City at the time.

Modern era

In the 1950s, approximately 40-50,000 of older generations of Persian immigrants found it necessary

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