Wikipedia's article on the Persecution of Zoroastrians, community-edited. Reliable for the article's own characterization of the 1979 Islamic Revolution as "equally traumatic" for Iran's Zoroastrian community, whose numbers it states were "reduced drastically"; for Muslim revolutionaries entering the main Zoroastrian fire temple in Tehran and replacing a portrait of Zoroaster with one of Khomeini; and for continued official recognition afterward, with one reserved parliamentary seat under the 1906 constitution and Iran's 2012 census recording 25,271 Zoroastrians, a 27.5 percent rise from 2006. The article gives no numeric pre-revolution population figure and no precise date for the temple incident narrower than the revolution itself, and this atlas carries both gaps rather than inventing a number or a date.
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used only for what the article states in its own words about the 1979 revolution and its aftermath; no pre-revolution population estimate is drawn from it because the article gives none, and other unsourced figures circulating for that number were deliberately not carried into this atlas. NotesUsed for the 1979 revolution's persecution of Iran's Zoroastrians.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Zoroastrians
Source Typereference
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Tehran, Cities This source names Tehran directly: "the main Zoroastrian fire temple in Tehran and replacing a portrait of Zoroaster with one of Khomeini; and for continued official recognition afterward, with one reserved parliamentary seat under..."
This source names Zoroaster directly: "e in Tehran and replacing a portrait of Zoroaster with one of Khomeini; and for continued..."
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