Ethnically Kurdish, the Yazidi faith has some aspects of ancient Zoroastrianism.

Some of the historical exceptions have been in regions where one of the revealed religions has been in a position of power Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam.

Discrimination against women is part of a broader pattern of official bias in Iran, especially against those who are neither Muslim nor members of one of the three minority religions Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity recognized in the Iranian Constitution.

Their language became the common language of the Silk Route and they played a role in the cultural movements of philosophies and religion, such as Manicheism, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism into the east as well as the movement of items of trade.

It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.