Racially insecure? We have been Persians for over 3,000 years... and Iranic even longer then that.
When the Arabs invaded us they tried their best to convert us to Arabs (like they successfully done with the Mesopotamians, Egyptians and Levant). We are the only people that they couldn't make speak Arabic... The greatest Persian book of all time (Shahnameh) came after you guys left for India, and our identity continues until today.
It is not just a fad as you said in another thread, we are Iranian and will remain so as long as the earth keeps spinning around the sun.
Did you not read the stuff I posted from the link? The one you called "good story bro!" ?
It wasn't a story. It was history.
It clearly gives the how and the why of the Shahnameh.
You guys collectively fought. So did we.
But the tide turned. And someone had to save and preserve the faith.
If not for us, the few Zoroastrians that you still have would never have emerged and found a voice.
My mother's family left Iran around 150 years ago. We are one of the richest Parsi families on Mumbai, having made our fortune running cotton presses during the times of the British.
They came from Iran as paupers.
That is where the rub lies my friend.
You finally accepted an invaders faith and holy book and script for whatever reason.
But you persecuted your own brothers and sisters that still doggedly held on to what you gave up on a long time ago.
That is not done.
That is what the Parsi community will keep reminding you of as your mirror of collective conscience as an ancient people, till we die out as you so gleefully hoped for in the other thread.
But Zoroastrianism will not die with us.
Your Arab masters never managed that.
Always remember.
And reclaim what was and is always yours.
Because all said and done, with regard to the topic title, Iran may or may not respect all divine religions.
But it definitely does not respect its own.
