I think it’s important for people to take into account that ancient Babylon and Persia’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’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’s likely that they remained there untill the end of Akhenaton’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’s death, since the local priest wished to impose their politheistic religion again. However it’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’s military operations through their religion. They later named it Israel and this point it’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’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’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’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’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.

As you know bakhtiari people consist of several so called “tayefe”.
I’m just wondring which tayefe:s the samples were taken from.

I m just wondering to witch gruop of bakhtiari your father belonged.

“There are 6% haplogroup L in southern part of Iran.”

I’m assuming you’re saying that in response to the map.

I believe the 6% haplogroup L in the south figure is for Y-DNA.

The map is, however, for mtDNA.

(That’s a different Haplogroup L.)

“My mother’s family have been established Tehranians for quite sometime and because of the nature of big city life, their heritage has been mixed and lost. But if you look at members of my mother’s family, they are fair skinned and have blond hair with green or blue eyes.”

My mother is Iranian. (And my father is Canadian, of Northern European descent.)

On my mother’s side — on my Iranian side — we have a similar characteristic. Almost all the kids are born with blonde hair and blue eyes.

But generally the blonde hair and blue eyes change color as we get older… somewhere between the ages of 5 and 20. (It various from person to person in the family.)

When the eyes change color, they change to either brown, green, or hazel. (I’ve actually had all 4 colors throughout my life… and they’re hazel now.)

And when the hair changes color, it changes either to black or brown.

Those people who are born with that characteristic generally have fairer skin.

I’ve actually wondered if whatever allele(s) are responsible for our blue eyes or blonde hair also has an influence on skin tone. (Excuse me if the answer to that question is apparent… I’m by no means an expert in genetics.)

This characteristic seems like it can skip generations too. For example, as far as we know, my Mom didn’t have blonde hair or blue eyes when she was young, but I did.

“This study focuses on the relationships of populations as reflected by mtDNA and Y-chromosomal variation. It does not aim at ascribing ethnicity to individual groups, nor does it intend to evaluate the self-identification of such groups.”