July 14, 2005
Zoroastrians in Iran
A BBC pictorial around the Zoroastrian community of Iran.
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cool links, rodgerd! )))
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Coolness.
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Nice. Here's another nice BBC pictorial, this one about the Kalash of Pakistan.
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I'm surprised there are still Zoroastrians in Iran, especially since 1979. Didn't most of them become Parsees in India a few hundred years ago? The Wikipedia article doesn't say how many are left in Iran.
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The BBC article reckons they're in the tens of thousands in Iran.
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I knew a young woman of this faith from Tehran in college. She immigrated from Iran in the early nineties. This paper, a few years old, claims that "Today the number of Zoroastrians in Iran are approximately 90,000."
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More on the Kalash: Pagan sect at Pakistan border lives amid conservative Muslims