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 == Edit to the lead == 

  regarding your recent revision of the lead, there was a recent RFC on this - it's in Archive 14 - which is one of the reasons I reverted you. some of the changes you made are unsupported by the citations. Specifically, making the Iranian connection only linguistic and referring to them only as ""sometimes"" being classified as abn Iranian people. As you can see from the RFC this was thoroughly debated.   "