I've recently taken a notice how everyone east of Iran gives us shit for having a lot of Mediterranean admix and for looking heavily Mediterranean as well. They always try to darkwash our Mediterranean admixture and looks by saying that "oh your Mediterranean ancestry comes from Levant_N and not from ANF/EEF" or they sometimes downright claim that we don't have that much Mediterranean admixture when in reality they are the ones who have little to none Med admix. And of course they don't look med either. They basically try to cockblock us from being Mediterranean looking or admixed because they try to cockblock us from having any similarities with southern euros in whom Mediterranean component and phenotype peaks. At least that my guess as to why these forum dwellers east of Iran claim such things
i would like to add something
not only our EEF score or med phenotypes have overlap with europeans . our EHG , CHG , and even Zagros N also has overlap with Euros .
and regarding phenotypes Kurds are :
Cappadocian Mediterranid
Iranid . actual Iranid and not the "iranids" people label on curryoid people smh . . and Iranid has also similarity to meds
Pontid
Armenoid . heck even Armenoid has some overlap with europe and some europeans can be Armenoid . Armenoid can look similar to Dinarics
Iranian Nordoid
Alpine types
West Asian Dinaric
North Pontid
and sometimes but rarely you also have some Turanids
any other phenotype is rare