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Yeah, definitely.
The Arab cluster is confined only to the eastern Arabian coast so far!
That area historically was heavily Persian influenced!
The Arab cluster is only 1650 years old according to YFULL, although they may find some other people in future positive and the age my go up!
If not, we may assume that there were some migrations to that area around 1650 years ago that gave birth to the Arabian branch!
I don't think that it is a Roman influenced migration because the Roman Empire never ruled those territories and only briefly ruled the southern coast of Iraq before losing it very quickly to the Persians!
So I think it might be Persian input but from who did the Persians acquired it, it's a different question!
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