Iranians converting to Zorostriasm

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I'm so glad they are converting back to the religion that once was the dominant religion of Persia, thousands of years before Islaminisation.
Persia followed Zoroastrianism and there prophet is a Persion, so glad people are going back to their roots and culture.
 
I read in a Farsi language newspaper that Christianity and Buddhism make up about 60% of the Iranian population now (30% for each), all of them have converted over the last 20 years. Baha'i faithful make up about 10% of the population, which is half of the figure obtained in the mid 70's when it was at 19% of the people in Iran. There are more Christian symbols and Buddha statues in Iran than there are portraits of Hussein in southern Iraq. Jews make up about 5% of Iran today, they were 13% back in the 70's. Right now, Zoroastrianism accounts for 20% of Iran today, when the figures had been less than 5% before 1995. This means that three quarters of Iranian Zoroastrians today have converted from Islam. That means Islam is only 5% of Iran today. However, this means that even during the time of the Shah, Islam made up only 48% of Iran, because Assyrians and Armenians alone made up 15% of Iran. There were literally almost 5 million Armenians there then. Today, Assyrians Armenian make up only 1% of Christians in Iran, the rest are Persians. There are barely a million Armenians left and only 12,000 Assyrians according to the AUA, and I believe the figure is far less, probably somewhere between a quarter to half of that, there can't be more than 2,000 left in Tehran and there can't be more than 5,000 in Urmia to matter how count them.       
 
nobody knows how many of us there are in Iran right now. This number was given by a Chaldean priest but it is not too far fetched. Immigration has killed our people there, but we Assyrians of Iran having problems procreating. All Assyrians should give up using condoms and start having 4-6 kids. Unfortunately, I keep hearing that even people who are younger in my generation, married people, have abortions and don't want kids. That makes me so sad. They are killing Assyrian kids just like the ISIS. The best thing you can do for Assyria is to get married and have a child within a year, but I should first give myself that advice being unmarried and childless.
 
I know the 60,000 existed up until 1997, but there is little data to know how many there are there now. The situation there is undoubtedly better than Iraq and most of the region for Assyrians. I have an uncle in Wollongong and he has 4 adult kids, but his wife is Aboriginal and not Assyrian. Here in Los Angeles, I do not know anybody my age who has more than 1 sibling and having only 2 kids is not helping s grow at all. I still think we need people to have 4-6 to stay afloat. 
 
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