"With his writings and research on the history of Iran and the Zoroastrian religion, Mobed Koorosh Niknam is known as one of the leading contemporary figures in the field of Zoroastrian history and culture studies as well as being an outstanding and brave parliamentary representative of our Iranian community,” noted a communique from the London-headquartered World Zoroastrian Organisation. The 69-year-old liberal scholar had succumbed to cancer in France on May 9, 2024.
When speaking at the 11th World Zoroastrian Congress (WZC) in Perth in 2018, Niknam had noted that the Zoroastrian religion has "the power to spread peace, reconciliation, love and......