Is Germanic a subgroup of the Iranian languages?

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Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri

There were different Scythian/Saca tribes with different names, or better to say different suffixes, for instance, Strabo mentions one of them in the east with the name of "Sacarauli" and another one in the west which can be called the greatest one, "Sacasene". They migrated from the north to the northwest of Iran, conquered the Median empire and several other lands and reached the borders of Egypt. They were first mentioned by Assyrians as Ashkuz and by Jews as Ashkenaz, it is interesting to know that afterwards Jews gave this name to Germany. 
The Middle Persian name of this people was Sakzi and in Modern Persian Sagzi (read about it in Shahnameh: http://ferdosi.org/shahnameh.htm), I think it is clear that there was certainly a "z" or "s" sound after "k", it is even possible that we see the word "Saka" in the Old Persian texts just because there was no "z" sound in the Old Persian language. 
The only Scythian inscription that Some mentioned in this thread and several other Scythian objects and buildings have been found near a city in the northwest of Iran with the name "Sakkez/Saqqez" that archaeologists and historians believe to be the capital of Scythian Empire in the 7th century BC, and we see a land in the north of Black Sea which is said to be their original land, is called "Saksin/Saqsin" in almost all Islamic sources. 
And the Britons like to call Germans Huns and we call the native Americans still Indians, so what? The Ashkenazi comparisation is nonsense. And again, the term Saxon is not the term for a single nation. I'll repeat myself untill you understand it. It is a number of different tribes or robbing groups that were called Saxons by their enemies not by themselves. Only later they used the term by themselves. It is the same with the German name. Germans didn't call themselves German, they used it later but the term was not succesful and there are even more examples. So if the Saxons were Sakas, why did others call them so but not the Saxons themselves?
Scythian cultures reached from the Hungarian plains to the Tuva region. But Scythian cultures doesn't mean they were one nation or shared only one language. Scythians are usually only the people west of Don and North of the Black Sea. Your city Saqqez is outside this area. And BTW what did Islamic sources know about the Scythians. The earliest islamic sources can come from the 7th century AD, probably later. And they knew about the Scythians in the 7th century BC?
But would you tell me about archaeological sites of scythian culture in the area between the Maas/Marne rivers and the Vistula river. Perhaps you would be so kind to give me the exact date of those first Scythian invasion and the regions they met, with the archaeological sources that show the truth of your idea.