all persians are considered 'brown people'... Most persians that look whiter are whiter because their ancestors {grandparents} are from the north of Iran, either in Azarbaijan, or an Amanian location, thats why they are whiter than the rest of the Iranian people. We who are from Tehran, are skin tone is like Ahmadinejad. And further down south, we have a lot of black persians, and then the bulk of the south is dark brown persians, similar to people from Pakistan.