angeldust
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Angeldust, do you think if Iran became a Zoroastrian (or at least a Zoroastrian friendly) country that most Parsis in India would move to Iran?
I ask because I have read several times from both you and vsdoc of anger at being forced out of Iran.
Fair question. During the days of the Shah, there was actually a program of getting many educated Parsi professionals from India to settle in Iran.
Then your mullas came and it was status quo of the past 1400 years all over again.
I know I cannot speak for all Parsi but if you ask me personally, I am Indian. Will die Indian. But that does not stop every Parsi alive from having a strong love for Iran and Iranians. All Iranians. A pull which is difficult to explain after 14 centuries. We see the mullas as different from Iranians. I know that's weird, but we still look at you guys as victims and at your mullas as rabidly brainwashed victims. We will rave and rant against Islamic Iran, but we will equally ferociously defend you against all others, be they American or Israeli or anyone else. And we are the biggest and most silent (but very strong industrial) lobby in India that pushes for India-Iran relations at the upper levels.
But India is our motherland. India and Parsis cannot be seperated, because who we are is completely intertwined with being Indian. I cannot say this part of me is ancient Persian and this is Indian.
And I cannot, will not, ever go to a country where I am not boss of my own destiny and an equal. And we do not see that happening for Iranian Zoroastrians even after you overthrow the mullas. I do not think the rest of your people would be amenable to it.
Yeah I have 3 Faravahar necklaces, 2 gold and 1 silver. I also have one with a sotoon of takht e jamshid.
But I don't wear them much, find it uncomfortable wearing rings/necklaces. Only a watch I can deal with wearing for extended periods of time.
I wear mine after my bath and take it off only before going to sleep (that too because I'm terrified of strangling myself in my sleep).