There are Black people living in Iran right now — and the world has absolutely no idea they exist. That invisibility isn’t an accident. It’s by design.
Afro-Iranians have roots in southern Iran stretching back centuries through the Indian Ocean slave trade, East African migration, and ancient Persian commerce routes. They built communities. They built traditions. They’ve been there longer than most modern borders have existed.
But they’re nowhere in Iranian media. Nowhere in government. Their provinces are the poorest and most neglected in the country. While the world debates Iran’s nuclear program and picks sides in geopolitical conflicts — an entire Black population is being quietly written out of the national story.
This video tells the story nobody else will — who they are, where they came from, what daily life looks like for them, and why the silence around their existence says more about Iran than any headline ever could.
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