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	<title>Comments on: Genetic Relationships of Semitic and Indo-Iranian speaking groups in Iran</title>
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		<title>By: khorne</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[about Persians claim to be whites!! and aryans!!:
it all begun by Pahlavi regime&#039;s propaganda, you should know that the country iran is consisted of two main ethnic groups, brown- Semitic Persians and semi white Azeri and other Turkic people, now until about 100 years ago it was those Turkic people who were ruling the country and everything was fine with it, but as soon as Persians took control things got changed, Persians tried to assimilate Turkic people with all means possible, and then someone appeared around in the world called &quot;Hitler&quot; and declared that al none Aryan people are best and such, thus Pahlavi begun a new program, since only white people in Iran could be found among those Turkic ones they made a plan to assimilate Iranian Azeris and use them as pure white Aryan Persians! they begun a very vast propaganda, bribed many historians and made a fake history for ancient Persian, (while all Greek references have described Persians as the other way!!).

Pahlavi had many goals by those devises:

1- assimilate Iranian Turks and thus block any separation leanings.

2- buy a better international position for Persians.

3- Compensate the historical obsession of Persian people who were ruled by non persians for almost 14 centuries.

4- Make Persians to hate Arabs and Islam as the personal wish of Pahlavi king was such.

the pressure on Azeris went so high that about 65 years ago they begun an armed movement to separate, but Pahlavi tanks invaded Tabriz and killed many people, from that day Azeris say that Iran has occupied the southern Azerbaijan.

by the way, the name Iran itself is an innovation of Pahlavi regime, they use this name and say it means the land of aryans hence we are aryans! even now persians use documents of iranian Azeris to prove themselves as whites and aryans! even now Azeris are not allowed to teach their own language in their schools.

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they say such nonsenses like if they are indo Europeans and Arabs are not white like them and such, while Persians are very brown, they look like a mixture between Arabs and Dravidians, the whitest persian could be an arab! i swear most of the arabs are whiter than any persians, but remember that about 40% of iran&#039;s population are of turkic descends. some of them are really white but the majority just have some white traits.

the Pahlavi regime&#039;s propaganda was so immense that many persians actually believed it, they now consider themselves as pure Aryans!! and consider some on called king Cyrus who had no brilliant records as great Cyrus! and almost as a holy god! while he was in fact one of the most notorious kings of Persia and ended up by the hands of real Aryans, a group of scythian proto turkic people had got into current Azerbaijan and defeated and slain king cyrus near the river of Arax, they were led by a woman called Tumruz (Tomyris in greek references).

it appears if scythians (SAKHA proto Turkic people, the first known white ethnics) had the ability of creating some kind of sparks or fire or such a thing, the same thing is also mentioned in Scandinavian and Azerbaijan mythology.

did you know if Persians took Zoroastrian religion from Sakhas?

at those times Persians were not totally converted to Zoroastrianism, Persians were following MITRAISM (worshiping son) before they got in contact with Scythian (SAKHA) proto Turkic people from central Asia and learned the Zoroastrian religion from them, there went a lot of tensions between Persians and SAKHAs until king Cyrus invaded their lands in current Azerbaijan and got slain by them, SAKHAs were led by a woman called TUMRUS (TOMYRIS in Greek accounts).

there are lots of TURKIC words in Zoroastrian books, the AVESTA; though the original version got burnt during Alexander&#039;s invasion.

Just look at what remains of ancient Persia’s cornics and stone shapes, do those people drawed on stones look any kind of white people? Hell no!!
Beside, Ancient Persians were using Ilamits scripts and according to a recent genetic study shown in BBS TV Persians are direct descendant of Ilamits]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>about Persians claim to be whites!! and aryans!!:<br />
it all begun by Pahlavi regime&#8217;s propaganda, you should know that the country iran is consisted of two main ethnic groups, brown- Semitic Persians and semi white Azeri and other Turkic people, now until about 100 years ago it was those Turkic people who were ruling the country and everything was fine with it, but as soon as Persians took control things got changed, Persians tried to assimilate Turkic people with all means possible, and then someone appeared around in the world called &#8220;Hitler&#8221; and declared that al none Aryan people are best and such, thus Pahlavi begun a new program, since only white people in Iran could be found among those Turkic ones they made a plan to assimilate Iranian Azeris and use them as pure white Aryan Persians! they begun a very vast propaganda, bribed many historians and made a fake history for ancient Persian, (while all Greek references have described Persians as the other way!!).</p>
<p>Pahlavi had many goals by those devises:</p>
<p>1- assimilate Iranian Turks and thus block any separation leanings.</p>
<p>2- buy a better international position for Persians.</p>
<p>3- Compensate the historical obsession of Persian people who were ruled by non persians for almost 14 centuries.</p>
<p>4- Make Persians to hate Arabs and Islam as the personal wish of Pahlavi king was such.</p>
<p>the pressure on Azeris went so high that about 65 years ago they begun an armed movement to separate, but Pahlavi tanks invaded Tabriz and killed many people, from that day Azeris say that Iran has occupied the southern Azerbaijan.</p>
<p>by the way, the name Iran itself is an innovation of Pahlavi regime, they use this name and say it means the land of aryans hence we are aryans! even now persians use documents of iranian Azeris to prove themselves as whites and aryans! even now Azeris are not allowed to teach their own language in their schools.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>they say such nonsenses like if they are indo Europeans and Arabs are not white like them and such, while Persians are very brown, they look like a mixture between Arabs and Dravidians, the whitest persian could be an arab! i swear most of the arabs are whiter than any persians, but remember that about 40% of iran&#8217;s population are of turkic descends. some of them are really white but the majority just have some white traits.</p>
<p>the Pahlavi regime&#8217;s propaganda was so immense that many persians actually believed it, they now consider themselves as pure Aryans!! and consider some on called king Cyrus who had no brilliant records as great Cyrus! and almost as a holy god! while he was in fact one of the most notorious kings of Persia and ended up by the hands of real Aryans, a group of scythian proto turkic people had got into current Azerbaijan and defeated and slain king cyrus near the river of Arax, they were led by a woman called Tumruz (Tomyris in greek references).</p>
<p>it appears if scythians (SAKHA proto Turkic people, the first known white ethnics) had the ability of creating some kind of sparks or fire or such a thing, the same thing is also mentioned in Scandinavian and Azerbaijan mythology.</p>
<p>did you know if Persians took Zoroastrian religion from Sakhas?</p>
<p>at those times Persians were not totally converted to Zoroastrianism, Persians were following MITRAISM (worshiping son) before they got in contact with Scythian (SAKHA) proto Turkic people from central Asia and learned the Zoroastrian religion from them, there went a lot of tensions between Persians and SAKHAs until king Cyrus invaded their lands in current Azerbaijan and got slain by them, SAKHAs were led by a woman called TUMRUS (TOMYRIS in Greek accounts).</p>
<p>there are lots of TURKIC words in Zoroastrian books, the AVESTA; though the original version got burnt during Alexander&#8217;s invasion.</p>
<p>Just look at what remains of ancient Persia’s cornics and stone shapes, do those people drawed on stones look any kind of white people? Hell no!!<br />
Beside, Ancient Persians were using Ilamits scripts and according to a recent genetic study shown in BBS TV Persians are direct descendant of Ilamits</p>
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		<title>By: ali</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ali]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[mahdi 
who has said that aryn means blond ?!! 
nobody has seen the first aryan !
you turks speak an altaic language like mongols ! 
if most of you do not look loke mongols it is because of mixture with caucausians , aryan medes , arabs ( two big arab tribes arrived in azarbaijan !! ) , although still you can see turkic faces with somehow turkic eyes in azarbaijan specially in villages !! 
althogh arabs invaded iran but the race did not change a lot ! go and see that turkey people have more j2 halogroup than iranians !!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mahdi<br />
who has said that aryn means blond ?!!<br />
nobody has seen the first aryan !<br />
you turks speak an altaic language like mongols !<br />
if most of you do not look loke mongols it is because of mixture with caucausians , aryan medes , arabs ( two big arab tribes arrived in azarbaijan !! ) , although still you can see turkic faces with somehow turkic eyes in azarbaijan specially in villages !!<br />
althogh arabs invaded iran but the race did not change a lot ! go and see that turkey people have more j2 halogroup than iranians !!</p>
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		<title>By: mahdi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mahdi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[persians has absolutlyno relatioanwith aryan race, the only people in middle east who has clues of aryans are TURKS not semit black headed persians, if you dont believe go and test your genums]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>persians has absolutlyno relatioanwith aryan race, the only people in middle east who has clues of aryans are TURKS not semit black headed persians, if you dont believe go and test your genums</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am of kurdish+ lore origin from iran. my paternal line is from zand tribe and maternal from kalhor tribe . recent dna test showed i have y haplogroup
 T m70 . and apearently this haplo is frommesopetamian origin!
 i wonder where is it comming as this haplo is not indo- european and not turk or semite!!! then which group of  ancient people might  had this  haplo,
sumerians , kassites, hurrian?
regards
daniel]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i am of kurdish+ lore origin from iran. my paternal line is from zand tribe and maternal from kalhor tribe . recent dna test showed i have y haplogroup<br />
 T m70 . and apearently this haplo is frommesopetamian origin!<br />
 i wonder where is it comming as this haplo is not indo- european and not turk or semite!!! then which group of  ancient people might  had this  haplo,<br />
sumerians , kassites, hurrian?<br />
regards<br />
daniel</p>
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		<title>By: saed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[saed]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[hi, my father and mother from southern Iran (bushehr) they speak arabic and we classified as Iranian Arabs , but we look Iranians 100%     ,  so, language doesn&#039;t decide you real ethnic groups...  I believe that I&#039;m came from Persian ancestors...
That&#039;s why, the genetics for people in the same place are  usually near (whatever their language is).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi, my father and mother from southern Iran (bushehr) they speak arabic and we classified as Iranian Arabs , but we look Iranians 100%     ,  so, language doesn&#8217;t decide you real ethnic groups&#8230;  I believe that I&#8217;m came from Persian ancestors&#8230;<br />
That&#8217;s why, the genetics for people in the same place are  usually near (whatever their language is).</p>
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		<title>By: hannibal the arab</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[hannibal the arab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[arab iranians like arab north africans share the same eu9 eu10 &quot;j&quot; so i don&#039;t know which fake studies you speak about!!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>arab iranians like arab north africans share the same eu9 eu10 &#8220;j&#8221; so i don&#8217;t know which fake studies you speak about!!!</p>
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		<title>By: hannibal the arab</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[hannibal the arab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[to the berber &quot;youcef&quot; :algeria like north africa is influenced by eastern influencers even homonid came from north arabia (syria mesopotamia) ; we care the same arab gene eu9 and eu 10 called &quot;j&quot; 
i don&#039;t speak about berber bantoustans!!! i speak only about the arab majority who looks like arab lebanese syrians iraquis ahwazee.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>to the berber &#8220;youcef&#8221; :algeria like north africa is influenced by eastern influencers even homonid came from north arabia (syria mesopotamia) ; we care the same arab gene eu9 and eu 10 called &#8220;j&#8221;<br />
i don&#8217;t speak about berber bantoustans!!! i speak only about the arab majority who looks like arab lebanese syrians iraquis ahwazee.</p>
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		<title>By: Ben</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am glad there isn`t racial barier between different languages in your country.But Mid-East people are sometimes caught by European racism:skin,hair...Ridiculouse Lebanese had shoun swastika on his site,but it disappeared soon after genetic research of Lebanese people.Good lack to all ant-racists]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am glad there isn`t racial barier between different languages in your country.But Mid-East people are sometimes caught by European racism:skin,hair&#8230;Ridiculouse Lebanese had shoun swastika on his site,but it disappeared soon after genetic research of Lebanese people.Good lack to all ant-racists</p>
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		<title>By: Duarte Sousa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Duarte Sousa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laila, 

I think it&#039;s important for people to take into account that ancient Babylon and Persia&#039;s frontiers were changed several times, meaning and englobed disting populations, which in some cases became mixed. The hebrews/jews are an example of that. The hebrew nation in it&#039;s beggining was probably a mixture of tribes coming from what is now Georgia, Armenia, Southern  Turkey, Eastern Syria, Iraq and Western Iran. These tribes which used to worship babylonian deities, eventually began emigrating towards Israel (at the time called Canaan), where they became mixed with the local population, which was already a mixture of different tribes, namely the amelekites, the amorites, the hitites, the hurians and the philistines, some of which are likely to have european roots. 

Later on, as the Torah suggests, many of these hebrews moved on to Egypt. It&#039;s likely that they remained there untill the end of Akhenaton&#039;s rule, and were largely influenced by Egyptian culture. In fact, it is possible that montheism among the hebrews was something inherited from this Pharaoh and that was possibly the motive why they became persecuted after Akhenaton&#039;s death, since the local priest wished to impose their politheistic religion again. However it&#039;s also very possible that monotheism among the hebrews derives from indo-aryan influence, namely from Zoroastrianism. What seems clear to me is that the hebrew religion was largely influenced by other middle eastern religions. The 10 Commandments, for instance, seem to be based on the egyptian Book of Death, while many of the myths in the Bereshith (Genesis) are very likely inspired by babylonian epic - Gilgamesh, which is nothing to be surprised about, given that the hebrews were originally a babylonian people. In fact, i would say that all ancient middle eastern and south european religions seem to be connected in a way or another, some more than others.  

The hebrews then moved on back to Canaan , bringing along with them other tribes (perhaps already converted) from Egypt and other parts of North Africa and conquered it, legitimizing it&#039;s military operations through their religion. They later named it Israel and this point it&#039;s possible that they were divided into 12 main tribes. Among these, Judah was one of the most powerfull ones. 

Israel, due to the rivalry among its 12 main tribes, would later on become divided in two, and the Northern region was soon invaded by assyrians, which led to the dispersal of some of it&#039;s population throughout the Middle East and possibly North Africa and Southern Europe. 
This was then followed by the babylonian, persian, and greek invasions which led to more of the same. Of course with all these invasions, hebrews became even more exposed to other cultures. 
Then, in 61 BC, came the romans, and along with them, their culture and technology. Their presence and military control was not accepted by most hebrews/jews (even though this represent new commercial opportunities for many) and it was at this time that rebel  sects such as the pharisees became popular. 

Considering Immanuel Yeshua (also known as Jesus Christ) existed, this was probably the one to which he belonged. The pharisees who were inspired by the teachings of Hillel and the belief in a Messiah that would set Israel free, gather all the tribes and bring universal peace were seen as threat not only to the romans but another jewish sect - the saducees, who refused the talmudic tradition and complied with the romans and therefore were regarded by many as traitors. Immanuel Yeshua was very likely one their most radical opponents, and as result of that some people began considering him to be a Messiah and created myths about him in order to make his cause more atractive. The logic response  to this threat was his death (by crucifiction or not).  More myths about him and religious rituals would later arise, most of which them seem to be based on the indo-aryan religion- Mithraism (very popular among the romans and a rival to Judaism), probably due to the intent of some of his followers to make his religion more acceptable among the gentiles. To sum it up, Christianism ended up developing itself basically as mixture of Talmudic Judaism with Mithraism. 

However, Immanuel Yeshua, would not be the only one ot be considered the Messiah. As tensions between jews and romans began to increase, a man known as Bar Kokhba arised as the hope of freedom, but to no avail, as he would eventually lose the war against the romans, which ended in a dramatic way, culminating with the suicide of thousands in Masada. 

Among all these conflicts it&#039;s not surprising at all that many emigrated towards other parts of the world, Persia being one of them. However a subtancial part of it&#039;s population remained in Israel and would later convert to Islam, causing their descedants to lose track of its hebrew origins, just like many portuguese, spanish and south americans still do these days. 

Now, as an atheist portuguese who descends from sephardi jews there&#039;s nothing more depressive than seeing people of the same blood fighting each other, due to religious segregation, ignorance and violence. Would they be aware of their common ancestry, the falsehood and dangers that religion exarcebates and the importance of humanistic and scientific/rational values and perhaps all people of hebrew origins would be living today in peace as one prosperous nation with one of the most diversified culture (sephardi, mizrahi and ashkenazi).  Of course the same should apply to all humans in larger scale.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Laila, </p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s important for people to take into account that ancient Babylon and Persia&#8217;s frontiers were changed several times, meaning and englobed disting populations, which in some cases became mixed. The hebrews/jews are an example of that. The hebrew nation in it&#8217;s beggining was probably a mixture of tribes coming from what is now Georgia, Armenia, Southern  Turkey, Eastern Syria, Iraq and Western Iran. These tribes which used to worship babylonian deities, eventually began emigrating towards Israel (at the time called Canaan), where they became mixed with the local population, which was already a mixture of different tribes, namely the amelekites, the amorites, the hitites, the hurians and the philistines, some of which are likely to have european roots. </p>
<p>Later on, as the Torah suggests, many of these hebrews moved on to Egypt. It&#8217;s likely that they remained there untill the end of Akhenaton&#8217;s rule, and were largely influenced by Egyptian culture. In fact, it is possible that montheism among the hebrews was something inherited from this Pharaoh and that was possibly the motive why they became persecuted after Akhenaton&#8217;s death, since the local priest wished to impose their politheistic religion again. However it&#8217;s also very possible that monotheism among the hebrews derives from indo-aryan influence, namely from Zoroastrianism. What seems clear to me is that the hebrew religion was largely influenced by other middle eastern religions. The 10 Commandments, for instance, seem to be based on the egyptian Book of Death, while many of the myths in the Bereshith (Genesis) are very likely inspired by babylonian epic &#8211; Gilgamesh, which is nothing to be surprised about, given that the hebrews were originally a babylonian people. In fact, i would say that all ancient middle eastern and south european religions seem to be connected in a way or another, some more than others.  </p>
<p>The hebrews then moved on back to Canaan , bringing along with them other tribes (perhaps already converted) from Egypt and other parts of North Africa and conquered it, legitimizing it&#8217;s military operations through their religion. They later named it Israel and this point it&#8217;s possible that they were divided into 12 main tribes. Among these, Judah was one of the most powerfull ones. </p>
<p>Israel, due to the rivalry among its 12 main tribes, would later on become divided in two, and the Northern region was soon invaded by assyrians, which led to the dispersal of some of it&#8217;s population throughout the Middle East and possibly North Africa and Southern Europe.<br />
This was then followed by the babylonian, persian, and greek invasions which led to more of the same. Of course with all these invasions, hebrews became even more exposed to other cultures.<br />
Then, in 61 BC, came the romans, and along with them, their culture and technology. Their presence and military control was not accepted by most hebrews/jews (even though this represent new commercial opportunities for many) and it was at this time that rebel  sects such as the pharisees became popular. </p>
<p>Considering Immanuel Yeshua (also known as Jesus Christ) existed, this was probably the one to which he belonged. The pharisees who were inspired by the teachings of Hillel and the belief in a Messiah that would set Israel free, gather all the tribes and bring universal peace were seen as threat not only to the romans but another jewish sect &#8211; the saducees, who refused the talmudic tradition and complied with the romans and therefore were regarded by many as traitors. Immanuel Yeshua was very likely one their most radical opponents, and as result of that some people began considering him to be a Messiah and created myths about him in order to make his cause more atractive. The logic response  to this threat was his death (by crucifiction or not).  More myths about him and religious rituals would later arise, most of which them seem to be based on the indo-aryan religion- Mithraism (very popular among the romans and a rival to Judaism), probably due to the intent of some of his followers to make his religion more acceptable among the gentiles. To sum it up, Christianism ended up developing itself basically as mixture of Talmudic Judaism with Mithraism. </p>
<p>However, Immanuel Yeshua, would not be the only one ot be considered the Messiah. As tensions between jews and romans began to increase, a man known as Bar Kokhba arised as the hope of freedom, but to no avail, as he would eventually lose the war against the romans, which ended in a dramatic way, culminating with the suicide of thousands in Masada. </p>
<p>Among all these conflicts it&#8217;s not surprising at all that many emigrated towards other parts of the world, Persia being one of them. However a subtancial part of it&#8217;s population remained in Israel and would later convert to Islam, causing their descedants to lose track of its hebrew origins, just like many portuguese, spanish and south americans still do these days. </p>
<p>Now, as an atheist portuguese who descends from sephardi jews there&#8217;s nothing more depressive than seeing people of the same blood fighting each other, due to religious segregation, ignorance and violence. Would they be aware of their common ancestry, the falsehood and dangers that religion exarcebates and the importance of humanistic and scientific/rational values and perhaps all people of hebrew origins would be living today in peace as one prosperous nation with one of the most diversified culture (sephardi, mizrahi and ashkenazi).  Of course the same should apply to all humans in larger scale.</p>
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		<title>By: Laila</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kambiz,
Where do Iranian Jews fit in, anthropologically speaking?  Do we have more in common genetically with Arabs and / or other Middle-Eastern Jewish populations, or do we share common ancestry with Indo- European speaking Iranians? Has anybody researched the mDNA or Iranian Jews?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kambiz,<br />
Where do Iranian Jews fit in, anthropologically speaking?  Do we have more in common genetically with Arabs and / or other Middle-Eastern Jewish populations, or do we share common ancestry with Indo- European speaking Iranians? Has anybody researched the mDNA or Iranian Jews?<br />
Thanks!</p>
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