@padamchen I thank you for posing this history brief which I will read in full tonite..I lived for few years in Iranian city of Kerman when I was at high school ..Kerman had/has a good size "Zartosht" population and it is a desert city close to Yazd where the last "atash" is..The "Zartoshti" community was very well respected by others and I recall my mother always reminded us of how clean and tidy the front doors of Zartoshtis were and she would tell us about the reason of being pure elements of the nature sacred to the faite "fire, Water, Earth and Air " (some thing for today's environmentalists to think of!!) There was also an ancient "tower of silence" ruins that I would bicycle to from time to time. I did not know what it was until years later when I read about it.
Would like tk explore your country someday bro. On a motorcycle. Off the beaten path away from the usual guided tour back to roots pilgrimage route.
My mother passed away last year. I keep feeling sad that she lived her life without seeing Iran. She was a very religious and pious Zoroastrian lady.
It's important for our young to read this history. Because too often I see the secular liberal inclinations in them.
It is important to remind them of where we cane from and what we came through and how we have survived.
The world has been engrossed in the story of the Jews.
No one has told the story of the Zoroastrians over the past 1000 years.
It's Ahura Mazda's will and divine plan for our people that we survived. And are still here. In spite of every genocide. Every massacre.
The Atash still burns.
And your people still have a living link to your glorious past.
Your heritage.
Your own civilizational memory.
Cheers, Doc