[olde north church]

Aren't Iranians actually Aryans? Iraqs, some of them are actually Chaldeans and Abram was Chaldean?

[GeronL]

Aren't Iranians actually Aryans?

what???... no, persians

[freedom44]

Iran literally means "land of the Aryans", not Aryan in the sense Hitler used it, but historically from the tribe Arya and of Indo-European origin.

Iran is the ancient name of Persia, and it is derived from the root "Arya" or Aryan, the Indo-European branch of peoples who settled in that land. The Aryans of ancient Iran were Mazdayasni Zarathushtris, ie. Worshippers of Ahura Mazda (the name of God in Avestan) as revealed by the ancient prophet Zarathushtra, thousands of years before Christ.

However, all the ancient Zoroastrian scriptures speak of an earlier homeland from where our people came, the lost "Airyane Vaejahi" or seedland of the Aryans. From this homeland, the Indo- Europeans or Aryans moved to upper Iran, Russia and the nations of Europe such as Greece, Italy, Germany, France, Scandinavia, England, Scotland and Ireland.

Unlike the Arabs -Iranians migrated from Indo-European countries, Iran remains one of the only countries (besides Turkey) in the Middle East that's non-Arab.

Ethnically the majority are Persian followed by Azari, Baluchi, Lur, Kurds..