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Religion in Iran has been shaped by multiple religions and sects over the course of the country's history. Zoroastrianism was the main followed religion during the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC), Parthian Empire (247 BC-224 AD), and Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD). Another Iranian religion known as Manichaeanism was present in Iran during this period.
The Faravahar is one of the symbols of Zoroastrianism, an Iranian religion. The Iranian religions, also known as the Persian religions, are, in the context of comparative religion, a grouping of religious movements that originated in the Iranian plateau, which accounts for the bulk of what is called "Greater Iran".
Besides targeting Iran's national level Baháʼí leadership, the Islamic regime also pursued Baháʼís known for services to their religion, and members of local Baháʼí councils all over Iran. The first local Baháʼí council member to be executed, who served in Tehran, was hanged on 12 April 1979—just days after the official ...
With a population of approximately 87 million, approximately 99.4% of Iran is Muslim (as of 2022). [1] Of these an estimated 90-95% were Shi'a and 5-10% Sunni (mostly Turkomen, Arabs, Baluchs, and Kurds living in the southwest, southeast, and northwest); although there are no official statistics of the size of the Sufi Muslim population, some reports estimated several million people, while ...
Shia Islam continued to thrive in Iran as a distinctive, almost national belief system, even after more than thirty years of limited state backing. However, due in large part to the destruction caused by the Afghans, Isfahan lost its appeal as a major intellectual hub of the Shia world, and instead the shrine cities in Iraq ( Najaf , Karbala ...
'The Nationalist–Religious Ones') [2] or the National–Religious [5] [6] (Persian: ملّیمذهبی, romanized: Melli–Mazhabi as an adjective) are terms referring to a political faction in Iran [7] [8] that consists of individuals and groups embracing Iranian nationalism and Islam, as an integral part of their manifesto.
Spiritual dances in Iran are known as "sama". These dances serve spiritual purposes, such as removing ill omens or exorcising evil spirits. These dances involve trance, music, and complex movements. One example is the Balochi dance "le'b gowati", performed to rid a possessed person of the offending spirit.
In 2023, Raz Zimmt, an expert on Iran attached to Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), quoting Iranian sociologist Hamidreza Jalaeipour, argued that 70% of Iranians fall into the category of "silent pragmatist traditionalist majority", which is defined as those who "might approve of religion and aspects of the regime, while ...