Hey sir,
I had some questions. Wouldn't Iran be a safer place for you than volatile India? You have a government which keeps picking fights with Pakistan, China, and BD, it is a recipe for disaster. Gujurat is especially vulnerable to PN.
Iran still has a very large Parsi community, and they are very close to their roots, although many have no qualms intermarrying Muslims or speaking Farsi.
Parsis live all over the Muslim world, it is not a problem for you.
Who are Iroons? Are you referring to Iranians or Pukhtoons? Dari usually is the language spoken in Afghanistan and formerly was spoken in Pakistan before British.
Iroons are Zoroastrians from north west Iran and Afghanistan who came over to India over the last 300 years, during the Qajjar dynasry rule, as against Parsis who came over around 1000 years ago. They came overland. We by sea. Like we continued speaking Persian for 6-700 years, they still speak Dari. However, because we are such a small community, and they are even smaller, and we do not speak Dari, most of them, definitely all the last two generations, now speak Gujarati. Parsi Gujarati is a dialect in itself bothi terms of words and enunciation. And most Parsis of the last 3 generations (maybe more) since we got urbanized and moved out of Gujarat to Bombay, cannot read or write Gujarati. We only speak it, and that too because our grandparents keep trying to speak to the kids in it.
The post Islamic revolution in Iran was at its core that of the people (commoners, the Behdin) versus the Emperor and the Magii (the warrior priests, tge Athrvan).
Behdin is only one subclass. Like the Hindu, in Sassanian Persia there were different ones (traders, farmers, etc ...). Unlike Hindus, there was no codified Kshatriya class, cause because if our 5000 year history of non stop war with the western world, everyone fought.
Those who were persecuted and held out for 300+ years in Persia after it feel were the priests.abd their families. The emperor's sons and their families and courts had fled to China (Sogdia).
As the religious fervour grew, we got pushed deeper and deeper into the mountains of Khorasan, where we made our last stand with the holy fire.
Finally the head priests, the holiest of men, called his men around him and told him of the prophecy that had been foretold. He told them our time here is done and we need to move the Atash to Hind.
With the help of people still loyal to the religion, ships were procured and readied and outfitted fir what in those days was a perilious voyage. And in stages over months the fire and people moved from Khorasan to the port of Hormuz ro set sail.
To answer your question, the fight was never about survival. It was about the faith and removing the alien faith from our soil.
That fight still continues.
