Afro-Iranians

Afro-Iranians () refers to Iranian people with significant black ancestry. Most Afro-Iranians are concentrated in the southern provinces of Iran, including Hormozgan, Sistan and Balochistan, Bushehr, Khuzestan, and Fars. They are split between Afro-Iranians who identify as Persians, Iranian Arabs, or Balochs.Mirzai, Behnaz. Afro-Iranian Lives (documentary film). afroiranianlives.com. Retrieved 23 November 2011.

History The Indian Ocean slave trade was multi-directional and changed over time. To meet the demand for menial labor, enslaved black people who were captured by Arab slave traders were sold in cumulatively large numbers over centuries to; the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Arabia, India, the Far East, the Indian Ocean islands and Ethiopia.Gwyn Campbell, The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, 1 edition, (Routledge: 2003), p.ix Others came as immigrants throughout many millennia or from Portuguese slave traders who occupied most of the contested Ormus's Bandar Abbas, Hormoz and Qeshm island ports in southern Iran by early 16th century.Tazmini, Ghoncheh. (Cambridge University Press: 1 January 2022), vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 284. Retrieved 6 March 2023.

During Qajar rule, many wealthy households imported Black African women and children to perform domestic work alongside Circassian slaves. This was largely drawn from the Zanj, who were Bantu-speaking peoples that lived alongside Southeast Africa.F.R.C. Bagley et al., The Last Great Muslim Empires, (Brill: 1997), p.174 In an area roughly comprising modern-day Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi.Bethwell A. Ogot, Zamani: A Survey of East African History, (East African Publishing House: 1974), p.104 Under British pressure, Mohammad Shah Qajar issued a firman suppressing slave trade in 1848. Iran abolished slavery in 1929.

Notable Afro-Iranians Abdolreza Barzegari, footballer Abdul Karim Farhani, Iranian Shia cleric, Assembly of Experts member Adnan Afravian, Iranian actor known for playing in Bashu, the Little Stranger Alex Eskandarkhah, filmmaker Ali Firouzi, footballer and coach Dennis Walker, footballer of Afro-Iranian descent, first black player to play for Manchester United Marzieh Hashemi, journalist and TV presenter at Press TV Mehrab Shahrokhi, footballer Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, Iranian Shia cleric, Assembly of Experts member (Afro-Ahwazi Arab) Mohammad Marani, a brigadier general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ali Azmaei, a brigadier general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Shanbehzadeh Ensemble, Iranian folk band

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