Nadene Goldfoot
Even though the Assyrians with Sargon attacked Samaria in 721 BCE, and carried off 27,290 Israelites, taking them to Assyria and Media, they replaced them with Syrian and Babylonian prisoners.
We can see that perhaps they remained in Israel and probably are today's Assyrian Christians, having moved to other states including Iran that were Islamic. So they were first Syrians who were captured by Assyrians that remained, only to convert to Christianity to be Christian Iranians today. A DNA test of male haplogroup would tell us more.
Christian Iranians, specifically Armenians and Assyrians, exhibit diverse Y-chromosome haplogroups, but generally show a higher frequency of haplogroup J, particularly J2a, and R1b compared to the general Iranian population. Studies on Iranian religious groups, including Christians, have revealed a reservoir of genetic variation in the Y-chromosome, with differences observed between Christian and Muslim populations in the same geographic area. Assyrians still speak their ancient neo-Aramaic from old Aramaic with a little Akkadian and Israelis speak ancient Hebrew-So... Shalom, everyone, meaning peace, hello and goodbye. Iranians speak Farsi. Farsi, also known as Persian, is an Indo-European language primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.
"The Assyrians of Iran speak Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, a neo-Aramaic language descended from the eastern dialects of the old Aramaic language with elements of Akkadian, and are Eastern Rite Christians belonging mostly to the Assyrian Church of the East and also to the Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Pentecostal Church, Chaldean Catholic Church and Assyrian Evangelical Church."
They share a common history and ethnic identity, rooted in shared linguistic, cultural and religious traditions, with Assyrians in Iraq, Assyrians in Turkey and Assyrians in Syria, as well as with the Assyrian diaspora.
After the fall of Assyria between 612 and 599 BCE, after decades of civil war, followed by an attack by an alliance of former subject peoples; the Medes, Persians, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Scythians and Cimmerians, (its people) became an integral part of the Achaemenid Empire (as did Assyria itself), holding important military, civic and economic positions.
The Israelites became part of the Achaemenid Empire when the Achaemenid Empire, led by Cyrus the Great, conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE. This was 60 years after the fall of Assyria.
The Achaemenid Empire borrows its name from the ancestor of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the empire, Achaemenes. Achaemenes was himself a minor seventh-century ruler of the Anshan in southwestern Iran, and a vassal of Assyria. A vassal or liege subject is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe. While the subordinate party is called a vassal, the dominant party is called a
The Achaemenid Persians, having spent centuries under Assyrian domination, were greatly influenced by Assyrian Art and Architecture, modelled their empire upon Assyrian lines, and saw themselves as the successors of the great Assyrian kings.
Assyrians are still attested as being extant in the north west of the region during the Parthian Empire (160 BC-223 CE) and Sassanid Empire (224-650 CE), and throughout the Middle Ages, where the Bukhtishu family of physicians were held in great regard by the Persian kings.
In Iran (Persia), Christianity dates back to the early years of the religion. Through this time the Christian faith has always been followed by a minority of the population of Iran under its different state religions: Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia, followed by Sunni Islam in the Middle Ages after the Arab conquest, then Shia Islam since the Safavid conversion of the 15th century. However, Christians comprised a larger share of the population in the past than they do today. Iranian Christians have played a significant part in the historical Christian mission: currently, there are at least 600 churches and 300,000–370,000 converts.
In 1900, Assyrians numbered over 76,000 in northwestern Iran, constituting over a quarter of the Azerbaijan province's population and were the largest non-Muslim majority in Urmia. Of the 300 villages around Urmia, 60 were exclusively Assyrians and 60 were mixed villages with Assyrian, Armenian, and Azeri communities. Nevertheless, there were over 115 documented Assyrian villages to the west of Lake Urmia prior to 1918.
The Assyrian kings began a new period of expansion in the 9th century bce, and from the mid-8th to the late 7th century bce, a series of strong Assyrian kings—among them Tiglath-pileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib, and Esarhaddon—united most of the Middle East, from Egypt to the Persian Gulf, under Assyrian rule.
The Assyrian Christians of today have experienced no freedom under the Ayatollahs according to an interview I saw either on CBN or ILTV under Youtube today. These people are constantly being monitored. They consider Iran to be brutal to them. They would be happy to have Israel win this war. They see Judaism having much in common with them. The interviewee said that Judaism is the culture of Life. Christians of today have had Islam forced on them in school , and of course, are rebelling, if only quietly when interviewed and feeling free to speak.
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Resource:
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
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