Is anti-government sentiment driving Iranians towards irreligiosity and secularisation?
In June, the Netherlands-based Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in IRAN conducted anin collaboration with Ladan Boroumand, co-founder of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran, with results revealing unprecedented secularisation in the Islamic Republic.
8 percent identified as Zoroastrian, although it is stated that this may indicate a non-Islamic Persian nationalism rather than a true system of belief. 7 percent claimed to be spiritual, Christians accounted for 1.5 percent, and Baha’i 0.5 percent. While 78 percent of Iranians believe in God, only 37 percent believe in the afterlife and 30 percent believe in heaven and hell. A quarter of respondents said they believed in jinns, and 20 percent said they did not believe in any of the options, including God.
72 percent opposed the law mandating all women to wear the hijab, and 58 percent said they do not believe in the hijab altogether.
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