I wonder if the Parsi industrialists could enter Iran on the back of the India-Iran relationship as our version of the East India Company.
Slow. Insidious.
Trade and the harvest of lost souls.
Could/would India help to protect us?
Cheers, Doc
Doc, the parsi industrialist will be protected. But, then again, He is not going to go personally and rally opinion. They will employ like minded ordinary people to do the groundwork. And these people will be likely swinging from a crane.
The truth is, in war, covert or overt, the most ruthless side is likeliest to win, unless there is a whole degree of power difference. To be very honest, I didn't push the point on that day , when you informed of 30 million crypto zoros in Iran. But think about it, almost 1/3 of the population, and you find no squeak of them in the internet and social media. its probably likely that their numbers are much lesser and they are simply rebelling against the regime rather than the faith.
The regime and ISIS are your best friends. Isis makes them have a peek at what it was to be a Kafir in 7th century arabia. Till now they imagined themselves as the Muslims purifying the Kafirs. Now the shoe is on the other foot- they are the Kafirs and they are not liking it. Its the reason why the religious Kurds and Iranians are converting now instead of all this while.
The regime in Iran is also your best friend. They represent and speak for Islam and have absolute power. So, the normal Iranians figure, they and as an extension,Islam, is absolutely responsible. If they rebelled and became a democracy, there will be cosmetic changes. But it would be a Pakistan, Bangladesh or Malaysia. It would still be a life with unequal rights. Your people would still be emigrating to fairer pastures. And they would have scapegoats of specific leaders to blame like a Ziaulhaq , Bhutto or a Begum Khaleda. But the system will always tune to their comfort level.
And you don't get converts because the blame is not on a faith but on specific leaders. Magically, the unfair laws, they bring won't be changed even by later leaders simply because it doesn't affect them. The current regime is your best friend. Just let them pile the pressure. Hopefully the Parsis are there to give them a release, without being anal about bloodlines.