Religion means nothing to Kurds. They are perpetual betrayers and will side with or convert to whoever or whatever they can dupe into supporting their dream of Kurdistan. They will accuse the Turks for the Armenian genocide while defending the Kurdish participation in it (the Kurds were fiercely pro-Ottoman at the end of the war and treated Christians like shit).
Many of those Zoroastrians in the west are larpers like the European neo-pagans. Middle class and above Iranians in the west also love Zoroastrianism. Islam is the religion of the rural and poor after all.
There is a difference between Zoroastrians in Asia and Iranian expats that convert to Zoroastrianism from Islam out of pure edge. They do pretty much exactly what European neo-pagans do, including supplementing their religion with new age mysticism and loaded politics.
Some interpretations of Zoroastrianism lead to vegetarianism, so we also have many vegan larpers.
Like we wuzzingg American negroes celebrating Ancient Egyptian celebrations. It means nothing.
Any form of Zoroastrianism today that could be called similiar to what it was ages ago with cosmogony dualism and monotheistic eschatology is practiced only among Yazidis and some Kurd sects.
Not true, the Pahlavis actually tried to bring it back, but the Zoroastrians didn't want converts entering in their society, they see other Iranians as foreigners or descendants of traitors, to them they are pure Persians and are proud of it. They stopped doing their old way of sky burial (the dead eaten by vultures) in the 70's.
The Iran-based Zoroastrians are tolerated by the government because there is a fraction in both "clergy"(of sorts) and the administration that thinks that their beliefs and way of life should be preserved as it's the "traditional Persian faith".
However, Iranian law states that the first son of Zoroastrian family who converts to Islam will get 100% of their parents' wealth as inheritance. As you might expect it's mighty effective. There were a dozen contradicting sects from what the Sassanids pushed to the Mazdakis which were "share the wealth" proto-commies.
As we type gallons of Muslim semen are shot into Muslim holes reinforcing Islam in Iran.
Anyway, Zoroastrianism isn't going to come back mainstream in Iran. Only larpers revert to it, Iranians are mainly converting to Christianity and Baha'i which both jives well with Iranian mentality. The irony of the theocracy has been that people have been put off by Islam.
Ironically, Europeans were not too keen on Zoroastrianism either (ever since Shapur committed massacres of Christians), Heraclius hated Zoroastrians more than Arabs did. In fact, Heraclius burnt more Zoroastrian fire temples than the Arabs.
If Byzantines were to win over Iran, we probably wouldn't even see a Zoroastrian minority in Yazd today that have maintained rituals dating to Sassanian era.
The Rashiduns were disgusting of course, but at least they left some Zoroastrians alone when they paid some taxes.
Zoroastrian local dynasties like Paduspanids existed in Tabaristan until 15th century for instance.
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