Posted on 01/10/2017 12:36:25 PM PST by Cronos
The social makeup of Iran’s population is very complex, because there is actually no such thing as an Iranian people. There are, instead, Iranian citizens divided into many ethnic groups: Persians make up about 60% of the population, while the rest are Azars, Kurds, Blouchis, Arabs, Turkmen and tens of smaller ethnic groups.
The main religion in Iran is Shia Islam, adhered to by 90% of the country’s people, while Sunnis – mainly Kurds and Blouchis – make up about 10%. The country recognizes Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism and reserves a parliamentary seat for each religion.
Zoroastrianism is based on the belief in two gods, a good one and an evil one.The world is the arena in which they battle one another. Daytime is when the good god wins and nighttime is the time the evil god has the upper hand. Good occurrences are arranged by the good god, bad ones are the fruit of the evil god’s labors.
Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the Sassanid Persian Empire, vanquished and destroyed in the 7th century Islamic-Arab conquest. The Arabs forced most of the Zoroastrian believers to accept Islam, and punished whoever stayed loyal to his original religion by death. Despite that persecution, or because of it, many of today’s Iranians are Zoroastrians who pretend to be Muslims. No one has any idea who is a secret Zoroastrian and who is an authentic Muslim, because everyone identifies himself as Muslim, knows how to pray and is familiar with the laws and customs of Islam
During my academic career, I met many Iranian expatriates. Some of them told me that the number of people in Iran who are loyal to the Zoroastrian religion is in the millions and in fact numbers many millions, but that all of them succeed in passing as Muslims and even in having a significant presence in the Ayatollah regime. Many of them serve in the Iranian Army and in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, a good number of them having reached the upper echelons of the Revolutionary Guards.
Every once in a while they burst out to demonstrate, the last time being in 2009 after the Iranian presidential elections were faked, allowing power to be snatched by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The country was filled with demonstrators, which could have ended with the Ayatollahs fleeing in planes that stood fueled, ready and waiting in the Tehran airport – had the protests continued. The brutal suppression of the demonstrations brought about their end – till next time.
President Obama did not support the protestors at that time, probably because of the empathy he had – and still has – for the Ayatollah regime, an empathy that brought him five years later to grant that dark regime the possibility of continuing its satanic plans to acquire nuclear power in another decade.
On Wednesday, March 15, 2017, the Zoroastrian holiday of Chahar Shanbeh Soori will occur. Zoroastrians all over Iran are planning a “Freedom Holiday” for that date, intending to burst out into the streets in an attempt to overthrow the Ayatollah regime If they are able to get rid of their Muslim rulers, they intend to bring the Shah’s son, at present in exile in Europe, back to Iran to assume the leadership of the country like his father, who was deposed at the end of 1978.
The Zoroastrians are using social media to organize the protests as well as passing information from one person to another among those whom they consider to be trustworthy. They estimate that there is enough time until mid-March to bring the message to the ears of every Zoroastrian in the country and to prepare them physically and psychologically for the “Freedom Holiday.”
Can this plan being an end to the Ayatollah regime? It most certainly can, if the Zoroastrians actually all go out to the streets and cause other “outsider” groups, who suffer economically and socially from the unbearable corruption that has taken over government officials, to join them.
If the many hidden Zoroastrians who serve in the armed forces turn their weapons on their Muslim colleagues, the army will be paralyzed, and so will the Revolutionary Guard, the Basij militia forces and the branches of Army Intelligence. This will allow the Zoroastrians out in the street to take over the public sphere and force their own agenda upon it.
The Zoroastrians-in-exile, who encourage and advertise the “Freedom Holiday” are hopeful that this attempt will succeed, especially because the new US president Donald Trump is not exactly pro-Islam and certainly not in favor of the Ayatollahs ruling Iran. He, as opposed to Obama, might actually support the rebels and take concrete steps against the Iranian government if it comes down heavily against the protestors, as it did in 2009.
I do not recommend holding one’s breath in anticipation of the success of Iranian Zoroastrians, because it is not entirely clear that they are seriously planning action against the hated government – and even if they do go out to the streets, it is not at all sure they will succeed in getting the Ayatollahs to board those waiting planes out of the country. Success depends on a great many factors whose actions on that fateful day are hard to predict.
Still, taking into account the determination of the organizers, I have a reasonable basis for expecting them to carry out their plans in and around the middle of March. I send them my wishes for success from this podium. Israel will be only too pleased to return to the days of its good relations with Iran – the days before the Islamist revolution destroyed the Shah’s regime towards the end of 1978.
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1. I just believe that I know the Iranians. There were enough of them in the KSA to get a read.
2. I know about Zoroaster, and about the "Assyrian Christian." That had to do with the Mongolian conquests. That changed the face of Asia forever.
3. True. That had to do with Iranian history and the Iranians themselves. The rest of Islam is Sunni (KSA). I USED to know why they changed but forgot because I don't care. I think it had to do with its Iranians founder.
Our relationship is with Sunni KSA so who cares about the 88 million Iranians who think they are God's gift to humanity?
Change CAN happen. Look at us! President Donald J. Trump. I never thought it could happen. HALLELUJIAH!!!
People don't "become" Muslim because of "Islamic pressure." They ARE BORN Muslim...as in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world.
The Saudis DON'T "say" that the Arabs are the master race. The USA and Saudis have been business partners since the 1920's. We lived in the KSA for five years and were NEVER pressured to become Muslims. NEVER.
Lol. Arabs the "master race"??? Only 25% of all Muslims are Arabs. They are a drop in the bucket. They are Semitic, that's all: long faces, hooked noses, low foreheads, dark hair and HAIRY folks...even the women. "Master race"?? You are confusing them with Hitler.
The ORIGINAL Ayrians were those Iranians who DID think that THEY were the master race. But, they always DID think so. There are 88 million Iranians so their collective voice is loud. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world. Look it up. THEY are all Oriental Asians. Go figure.
Hitler, the AUSTRIAN who learned his anti-Semitism from his Austrian culture, didn't arrive in Germany until he was 22 or 23 years old. Why he thought the Germans/Austrians were a master race was his own lacuna. Those two countries produce wonderful cars, engineers and scientists...but no "master race."
History is very important. It tells us who we are and why we are the way we are. Unfortunately, the victors write history...and it's often riddled with lies.
That's all moot for me as I live in the greatest country this planet has ever seen. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Thanks for your feedback.
Politics
Main article: Politics of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy.[86] However, according to the Basic Law of Saudi Arabia adopted by royal decree in 1992, the king must comply with Sharia (Islamic law) and the Quran, while the Quran and the Sunnah (the traditions of Muhammad) are declared to be the country’s constitution.[87] No political parties or national elections are permitted.[86] Critics regard it as a totalitarian dictatorship.[88]The Economist rates the Saudi government as the fifth most authoritarian government out of 167 rated in its 2012 Democracy Index,[19] and Freedom House gives it its lowest “Not Free” rating, 7.0 (”1=best, 7=worst”) for 2013.[89]
In the absence of national elections and political parties,[86] politics in Saudi Arabia takes place in two distinct arenas: within the royal family, the Al Saud, and between the royal family and the rest of Saudi society.[90] Outside of the Al-Saud, participation in the political process is limited to a relatively small segment of the population and takes the form of the royal family consulting with the ulema, tribal sheikhs and members of important commercial families on major decisions.[91] This process is not reported by the Saudi media.[92]
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Essentially, most Iranian People will always remain Zoroastrians. That is in spite of “the Islamic Republic Mullahs”, politics and invaders. It’s been so for 1400 years, and counting.
But, the article can’t even get the basics of Zoroastrianism correctly.
And, IF there was the slighted chance of “March 15 date and movement to overthrow the Mullahs’ regime”, it shouldn’t have been publicised in a “Breaking News from Israel” over 2 months before the event! LOL!
Bottom line: Fake news aimed to mislead & stir up trouble.
IOW, plan on a roundup of Zoroastrians on 14 March by the Islamic overlords.
That’d be one natural conclusion from this insane & really comical article.
Though neither the Zoroastrians (born or converts in Iran) would do it (especially not with advance warnings published by an Israeli news outlet), nor would the mullahs’ regime round them up because the mullahs might be nutjobs, but still are surprisingly intelligent on many levels.
BTW, a lot typically happens on Charshanbe Suri in Iran. Nothing new. There has always been a public safety element and issue regarding it for decades, even before the Mullahs’ regime.
The author of this article Mordechai Kedar, is an Israeli scholar of Arabic culture and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He holds a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University. He masters Hebrew, Arabic and English.
Mordechai Kedar is an academic expert on the Israeli Arab population. <--- that has nothing to do with Iranians, especially Zoroastrians. It's very obvious from the content of this article too.
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