Their old camp "situated in no-man's land" near the Iraq-Jordan border has been shut, the UNHCR said in a statement.

"The group composed of 186 refugees has been temporarily relocated to Al Waleed refugee camp, on Iraq's border with Syria," it said.

The UNHCR Representative in Iraq, Daniel Endres, who met the refugees on July 4, and said the move was to provide a better standard of living through improved access to food, water, health care and schooling.

Most Iranian-Kurd refugees in Iraq live in the Kawa settlement that UNHCR established in 2006, in collaboration with the Kurdish regional government, Endres said.

UNHCR figures published last August said Iraq had more than 42,000 non-Iraqi refugees, mainly Palestinians, Turks, and Iranians (Kurds and Arabs), and some Syrians, Sudanese and Somalis.