[National Review] J. K. Choksy and Nina Shea - "Every aspect of a non-Muslim is unclean," proclaimed Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Thus Iran's Zoroastrians, Jews, Mandeans, Christians, and Bahais are subordinated and treated as a fifth column by the revolutionary Islamic Republic. No matter that most of these religious groups were established in Iran before Islam arrived there; none are accepted by Iran's Shiite rulers as fully Iranian. Jamsheed K. Choksy is a professor of Iranian studies at Indiana University. Nina Shea directs the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom.
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