In this struggle Mazyar had the support of the Afshin, who allegedly wanted to control the Tahirid lands himself.
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Its numerical decline in Khurasan meant that the Khurasan-born Arabs could no longer be completely controlled by force; this opened the way for the appointment of a native Khurasani Arab governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, to succeed Asad, and, eventually, for the outbreak of the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad regime.
Khurasani Persians were found in great numbers at the slave markets of Khiva and Kashgar in China in the late 19th century, being sold by the Turkmens.
His Khurasani governor Yazid continued expansion into mountainous parts of Iran such as Tabaristan.