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This is only partly correct. "Eastern Persians" as you call them have been tested. I have seen Persian samples all the way to the East and Northeast (Khorasan) province and they were just a little more EHG ASI/East Eurasian shifted Persians but not significantly more, they still form a cluster. Southeast Iranian on the other hand do cluster a little bit different but they are not really Persians but Baloch.
However as I said anyways I have no problems calling Pashtuns, Pamiris/Yaghnobi, Baloch and Turkmens Eastern West Asians or Iranian Plateau people. I just thought Western_Central Asians would be more fitting. How you call it is up to you.
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