Are Iranian people Aryan, just like the German people?
Technically Iranian people are Aryans and Germans are not. Aryan was the self designation of the ancient Indo-Aryan (north Indians) and Iranian (Persians and Pashtuns) people. Only this ancient tribe of the Indo-Europeans called themselves this. Iranians, Indo-Aryans, and Afghans are related to Germans and most other Europeans (all except Finns, Hungarians, Estonians, and Basques). So yes, if you go far back enough you do share a bloodline with the Germans. In the past linguists thought that Sanskrit was the language closest to Proto-Indo-European, the mother language of the ancestors to all Indo-Europeans. Since the Sanskrit speakers (ancient northern Indians) called themselves Aryans the linguists assumed the proto-Indo-Europeans also called themselves Aryans. That is why Hitler used the term Aryan, he thought that was the name of his orignal ancestors. However, it was later determined that the Proto-Indo-Europeans did not call themselves Aryans, it was only the daughter branch that
