Are Persians genetically closer to Europeans than to Near Easterners?

[Arsen_]

...Same thing for the Hittites, who were basically Indo-Europeanzied Hurrians/Anatolians.

Hittites are the oldest Indo-European people in the world with the earliest attested Indo-European language. By whom they were Indo-Europeanzied??? By Martians or maybe by Venusians???

[Antimatter]

Hittites are the oldest Indo-European people in the world with the earliest attested Indo-European language. By whom they were Indo-Europeanzied??? By Martians or maybe by Venusians???

Hittite population was mostly of native stock. The ruling dynasty was however originally of the intrusive Indo-European Steppe comers.

[Arsen_]

Hittite population was mostly of native stock. The ruling dynasty was however originally of the intrusive Indo-European Steppe comers.

Stop that nonsense! Steppe "theory" is just a hypothesis and to me it is utter bullshit. Never ever in history half-human-half-animals from steppe produced anything meaningful let alone civilazition, language, writing, art and so on.

[Antimatter]

Stop that nonsense! Steppe "theory" is just a hypothesis and to me it is utter bullshit. Never ever in history half-human-half-animals from steppe produced anything meaningful let alone civilazition, language, writing, art and so on.

We have lots of evidences. Proto-Indo-European may have originated in Anatolia but IE languages certainly dispersed from the Steppes, with the exception of Armenian and Hittite (and maybe Albanian).

[gıulıoımpa]

overall for sure not but probably some isolated pockets of population may well be (or may have been before contemporary times)

[Papastratosels26]

No

[renaissance12]

Stop that nonsense! Steppe "theory" is just a hypothesis and to me it is utter bullshit. Never ever in history half-human-half-animals from steppe produced anything meaningful let alone civilazition, language, writing, art and so on.

Scythians

[Tenma de Pegasus]

Persians are iranic speaker middle easternes:

It seems they are equidistant between east europeans, sicilians and saudis.

[rajputprincess]

All west Asian and north African are closer to each other than they are to European.

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[tipirneni]

South Asian mix in Persians is present in most people.

There are more Persians admixture people living in South Asia than in Iran proper