Iranians cry "Death to the Islamic Republic"

“Unfortunately the Zoroastrians do not accept converts”

I don’t know where you got your info from ? Your info is not quite accurate.

Some Orthodox Parsi Zoroastrians (Parsi = those original persians who migrated to India centuries ago) are against conversion. The same does not apply to less dogmatic Parsis or the Iranian-Zoroastrians.

In fact Muslim born Iranians converting to Zoroastrianism as well Christianity are on the rise in Iran, as well as around the globe. Only in Iran, because of death penalty for conversion out of Islam i.e. apostasy laws Islamic Republic regime, the Muslim borns who do convert, in Iran keep things under wraps.

Read this and the comments:

http://plateauofiran.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/conversion-to-zoroastrianism-sedreh-pushi-navjote/

and about the Baha’i Faith

http://plateauofiran.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/the-bahai-faith/

Thank you for response. I make my comments based upon my experience as an American contractor living in Iran before, during and after the revolution. While many people did not like the Shah almost an equal number did. The Shah was strong and a forward thinker whereas he promoted more freedom for women and created a modern infrastructure. One of his major problems was the corruption of his associates and the failure to monitor them while they served the people of Iran. The Shah departed Iran because he didn't want to hurt his people and was forced to leave because of jimmuh carter.

The other person as I mentioned is the Shah's son Reza. He is still loved by the Iranian people, educated and intelligent. He certainly is not like his father and would not be as ruthless. One thing going for the US is that he is very pro American, which is something that we could use right now. Whether or not, should he remain if he returned and for how long, only time would tell. The Iranian people are a good lot and deserve much better that what they have now.

I hear that there is some form of Zoroastrianism (here in the US?) that does accept converts. They need to get together with the Zoroastrians in Iran, who don’t accept converts as part of their old accommodation with islam (and with Hinduism).

But best of all would be conversion to Christianity. I know Iranian-Americans who are Christians. But Iran needs a form of Christianity that is more indigenous to Iran, to avoid the dependence on the West that they so abhor.

That would be the Assyrian Orthodox Church (Church of the East) and/or the Armenian Orthodox Church, both of which have a long history in Iran. But these Christian groups in Iran are small, are ethnically-based, and have liturgical languages (Aramaic and Armenian, respectively) other than Persian/Farsi.

But the original Christian Church on the day of Pentecost had only around 120 members, all of who were Jews with Aramaic as their native language (Acts 1). And they evangelized the entire known world in just a few years!!!! With God, all things are possible.

As long as the rotten islamic Republic has the Iranian people under its iron boot, the chance of their hearing and responding to the Holy Gospel is next to zero. (muslim converts to Christianity are now routinely killed.) But if and when the islamic Republic is overthrown, many who have been ground down by the very worst form of islam and have become nominal muslims may be very receptive to the Gospel.

Iran should become a Zoroastrian or Baha'i republic and free itself from the Arabized Wahhabi belt.

Why on earth should Iran become ANY kind of religious republic?

A better model is India, which manages to continue despite frictions between the dominant religions there -- and I might add that things weren't always so very cozy here in the States either. And a true Iranian republic would probably look much more like the Indian or Israeli model -- lots of parties, continual bickering and shifting alliances.. but working.

(And maybe better than our alleged "two-party" system does today. But that's a rant for another thread.)

Unless a majority of them convert to something else I doubt the Iranian society will be able to displace Islam. Even if they introduce a secular model for their constitution it will still remain under threat from radical Islam as long as Islam remains the dominant religion. The Shah tried to create a westernized and largely secular state and failed. In Turkey Kemal Ataturk did it but with brute force and the Turkish Army is still the ultimate controlling institution. Its not a real democracy.

Indian and Israeli model works only because the majority in those countries are Hindu and Jewish respectively.

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