Quote Originally Posted by kambiz View Post
Wow that's cool. But if we are cousins ,And you and hellens are cousins as well ,Then logically we iranians (At least ancient iranians) were cousins to hellens as well ?! Then we can say graco-iranian wars were somehow a war between the same people who one was ruler of the east and another the ruler of the west ,right?
BTW ,as you guys mentioned before armenians and iranians were so close to eachothers. Even now there are many armenians live in iran and even one of them was in our national football team (Armenak Petrosian ,Do you know him artavazd?). Myslef had a armenian friend back in university a really good fellow there are many more in tehran , isfahan ,shiraz and many more cities.

And thanks for the youtube link artavazd
Well the Greeks would be like cousins to Armenians from the Fathers side and Persians would be cousins to Armenians from the mothers side.



Yes there are many Armenians in Iran, but the history behind that is not a very nice one. In the I think 16th or 17th century (centuries after Iran had become muslim) The Persian Shah deported hundreds of thousands of Armenians from Armenia into Persia. While at the same time settling Kurds into Armenia. This was done to make Armenia less stable. Many of those Armenians In Iran today are the offsprings of those who were forcefully deported centuries ago.