short response i have to say i haven't read all the discussions here but i can tell you're talking about race no one is talking about race here read the article where's race being discussed we're not talking about a jewish race we're talking about an ethnic group hopefully you know the difference between a race and an ethnic group an ethnic group is a group of people who closely identify with one another sometimes through having common ancestors but not necessarily so and share a unique culture and language persian jews definitely fall in this category they identify closely with one another for most of their history persian jews have been living in secluded jewish ghettos and they most certainly share a unique culture and language questioning the ethnicity of persian jews is simply absurd let me also re quote this sentence from britannica encyclopedia the jews trace their heritage in iran to the babylonian exile of the th century bc and like the armenians have retained their ethnic linguistic and religious identity discussing race might not be appropriate here but discussing ethnicity definitely is talk