Prayer: To abandon Iraq as my watan, must I choose a specific city in Iran—and is owning a house required?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Prayer: To abandon Iraq as my watan, must I choose a specific city in Iran—and is owning a house required?

English:

Question #688:

I am an Iraqi and would like to abandon Iraq as my watan. Should I take Iran as a whole as my watan, or one of its areas, and do I have to buy a house so that I might take a watan?

Answer #688:

For taking a new watan, it is necessary to make the intention of adopting a particular city as watan and to do the act which one normally does for taking a new place as watan, e.g. to buy/rent a house or to get a shop for business or to stay there for one-two month.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer