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I predict in a few decades time Iran will no longer be a Moslem country.

Persia was Zoroastrian, before it was Christian. And it was Christian before Mad Mo and his fiends came roaring out of the Arabian desert with fire and the sword. What once was, can be again.

The average Persian is incredibly proud of their pre-Islamic past. They have stubbornly held on to many ancient traditions like the Persian New Year(Now Ruz) which falls on the Spring Equinox- a Zoroastrian holiday. When my husband took me and our family to Iran Two years ago, he muttered one day when we were out walking in the city streets "those mullah bastards have turned my country into Saudi Arabia". In Tehran, in an upscale part of the city(one of the poorest planned and ugly cities in the world) we saw legions of teenagers wearing the cross. My brother-in-law said lots of people were converting to Christianity even though they are violating the law. I also met a woman who said that their were large and growing Christian groups that meet in secret to study the Bible. She was so sweet and asked me to say yhe Lord's Prayer in English and she said it to me in Farsi. Everywhere you go in Iran there are these huge portraits of Khomeini and he is portrayed as the eyes of God looking down on everyone. Young people who have grown up since the Revolution want nothing to do with a wrathful God like that. Jesus' words must sound revolutionary to kids who've endured lashings and worse just for wanting to be normal kids.

I agree that Zoroastianism will appeal to many after the fall of the mullahs. It will appeal to their national pride and from what I know of it, it seems to be a pretty decent religion- a far cry from the barbarism an intolerance of Islam as enforced in Iran today.