How Iran persecutes its oldest religion

Editor's note: Jamsheed K. Choksy is professor of Iranian studies, senior fellow of the Center on American and Global Security, and former director of the Middle Eastern studies program at Indiana University, Bloomington. Bloomington, Indiana (CNN)-- As Zoroastrian funerary processions enter the ...

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