[Cronos]

Are you Zoroastrian then? A true Irani should be a Zoroastrian/Nestorian Christian, not following a religion that was forced on the Persian people when they were conquered byArabs.

[muawiyah]

It wasn't exactly "forced" on them. What had happened is the Persians had earlier brutally conquered a chunk of the Middle East. The Arabs arrived on the scene in the nick of millenial time frames and tossed them out.

The Persian leadership elite was no more popular among the Persian people than it had been among the conquered people.

At the time, the religion adjustment was a minor issue (all things considered).