Official Iranian Government Census – 99.5% identify as Muslim
New independent survey – 40% identify as Muslim
“Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs”
In June 2020, our research institute, the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in IRAN (GAMAAN), conducted an online survey with the collaboration of Ladan Boroumand, co-founder of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.
The results verify Iranian society’s unprecedented secularisation.
These numbers demonstrate that a general process of secularisation, known to encourage religious diversity, is taking place in Iran. An overwhelming majority, 90%, described themselves as hailing from believing or practising religious families. Yet 47% reported losing their religion in their lifetime, and 6% said they changed from one religious orientation to another. Younger people reported higher levels of irreligiosity and conversion to Christianity than older respondents.
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Talk to anyone who left Iran after 1979. They long for the return of their sophisticated and learned society, not the rule of the mullahs.
It’s from the Conversation. They just make stuff up in their basement. It might be true or not. It’s just their opinion or stuff they saw on Twitter.
@ Agatha- I know some “Persians” who have been here since the ’70s. Good people.
@Mya Guess, I know several “Persians” as well. They all LOVE this country and mourn the loss of their beautiful country to the mullahs.
I would love to visit someday.
Don’t matter much if you live in a country where the government is ready and willing to kill you if they don’t much like what you say.
Did they consult with depressed, Iranian taxi cab drivers?
Shah Pahalvi lives?