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I am by no means an expert at this matter, but looking at the sculptures and reliefs on old palace walls the Iranians looked "darker" than today's Persians with a strong prevalence of curly and facial hair.
If anything the migrations of east Asians and the Vargarian-Slavic-Tartar slave routes in the the ninth century made them to a degree "whiter", especially in the northern regions around Teheran and Caspian sea which was a major slave trade nexus.
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Based on the samara yamnaya(which puts the average between 16-17%) derived results, at least a quarter, more or less, of the average Iranians genome belongs to the actual Indo-Iranian(considering that yamnaya represents proto-indo-europeans rather than indo-Iranians who became more diluted as they went south and south-west) invasions. Persian and Indo-Iranian aristocrats probably had a bit more.
Turkic admixture is absolutely minimal in most of Iran, save for khorasan. In western iran, the admixture reaches around 1-3% in azeris at most.
Iranian Persians and indeed most west-Iranians descend from post-Neolithic cultures, that had their own autchonous culture. That were related to other post-Neolithic cultures in north-west asia. Indo-Iranians only contributed with some of their genes and their culture. Much like the anglo-Saxons in England. They took over the hegemony from already advanced cultures. Their influence was mainly spiritual and linguistic.
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Pashtun and tajik pamiri type(prob less mixed with other elements). these groups also have highest yamnaya based ancestry.
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They were similar to the contemporary Iranians (minus the Mongoloid influence).
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