Can Iranians pass as Europeans?

[Sikeliot]

Like other threads, you can choose as many options on the poll as fitting.

I have several crowd photos here and I think that there is probably more similarity than I thought.. what do you guys think?

I also included some Pashtuns from Afghanistan in here too, as they are related to Iranians.

Keep it civil

[BeerBaron]

The aryans can, not the arab mixes, I don't consider arab mixes European but I don't they would be out of place in and central/southern European country.

[Sikeliot]

The aryans can, not the arab mixes

If you look at some of the crowd photos, some of them are surprisingly European looking.. makes me wonder if the original people of the region were more related to Europeans than most Iranians are today.. linguistically they are Indo-European after all but that might not mean much.

[Sikeliot]

More (and some are Pashtuns)

[Loki]

Good thread idea

[Alberta1]

Not really, btw Iranian are not close to Europeans genetically as Levantines, Assyrians, and Anatolians are. In fact they are much fruther away. There is some superfacial resemblence but for the most part Iranian and Iranic people have their own particular look that is not found in Europe. The original people of Iran were not even Indo-Europeans but Dravidians or claimed to be such like the Elamites whom are still a mystery but seem to be related to Dravids of India.

[Frederick]

Some of them look in a way, that I could be fooled to believe them beeing Southern Europeans.

Wich of those are Pashtuns? And Pashtuns are related to Iranians? Because in Dienekes aDNA analysis, Pashtuns differ quiet a lot from Iranians.

Western European aDNA component (centeres in Northwest Europe and dominates the Northwestern half of the continent):
Iranian: 6%
Pashtun: 13%

Eastern European (centeres in the Baltic countries and dominates Poland and Russia aswell)
Iranians: 4%
Pashtun: 7%

Mediteranean (centeres in Sardinia and dominates all European countries that are more south than the alps)
Iranian: 15%
Pashtun: 8%

Wich totals in 25% European for Iranians and 28% European for Pashtun. Well ok, close. But Pashtun seem genetically closer to Northern Europeans while Iranians apear genetically closer to southern Europeans.


West Asian component (Centeres in the Caucasus Region and dominates Anatolia and the northern middle east (also the dominating aDNA factor in Iran):
Iranians: 49%
Pashtun: 26%

South West Asian (centeres in Yemen and dominates Arabs, Egyptians, Jordanians etc)
Iranians: 12%
Pashtun: 3%

Totals to 61% Middle Easterner for Iranians and 29% middle Easterner for Pashtuns.

And then

South Asian (center in India and is also the dominating factor in Pashtuns aDNA)
Iranians: 10%
Pashtun: 39%

[Lábaru]

This guy for example is mixed with an American.

[Sikeliot]

This guy for example is mixed with an American.

I removed him.

[Sikeliot]

Btw these are all the Pashtuns I included;