Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
What you are calling "Iranian" or "Kurdish" is just their native Mesopotamian ancestry.

Iranian and Kurds are significantly different from Assyrians. They are partly derived from the same source of ancestry but different in many ways.

Mixed mode for the Iraqi Arabs from certain ancient Assyrian strongholds in Iraq

Tikrit Z280729
1 58% Kurdish + 42% Bedouin @ 1.9

Tikrit T520577
1 56.7% Kurdish + 43.3% Bedouin @ 2.61

Mosul A430262
1 56.2% Kurdish + 43.8% Palestinian @ 2.3

Mosul T476435
1 50.7% Iranian + 49.3% Lebanese_Muslim @ 2.7

Mosul T712507
1 60.9% Azeri + 39.1% Yemenite_Jewish @ 3.67

If they were partly Mesopotamian they would not get Kurdish or Iranian, but instead Assyrian or Kurdish Jewish/Georgian Jewish.