Really interesting diary, thanks for this.  So most of the Iraqi Mandeans are living in Syria and Jordan now?  I wouldn't anticipate them having as much of a problem in Syria, where religious minorities typically fare a bit better than elsewhere in the region, but Jordan might not be the most comfortable place for them.

You might be interested in this article about the Yazidis (he spells it Yezidi), which also includes a little bit about Iraq's Chaldeans, that ran in a local magazine here a little over a year ago.