Talk:Afro-Iranians

The term Afro-Iranian is an invention of the Iranian-Canadian scholar Behnaz Mirzai, and does not necessarily reflect the academic consensus on demographics of Iran. In her studies, Mirzai claims that 10 to 15 per cent of all people living in the Southern parts of Iran are descendants of the African slave trade. This categorization is not backed by genetic studies of Iranian populations and seems revisionist. This is not to say that there are not people of African descent living in Iran, but the narrative Mirzai is pushing with regards to the size of this community could very well be politically and ideologically charged and not based on historical facts. She does this despite the fact that darker-skinned people she supposedly interviewed self-identify only as Iranians and take it as an insult when she insisted on asking questions about their race. Omid.espero (talk) 01:17, 28 May 2020 (UTC)