http://www.academia.edu/9389288/Co-...jik_Claims_to_Zarathushtra_and_Zoroastrianism
'The political dimension of Rahmon’s pro-Zoroastrian stand has not been lost on his Islamist opponents. Rudaki Behdin, the founder of Anjoman-e Mazdāyasnāwho actively encouraged Tajiks to convert to Zoroastrianism,
was assassinated in June 2001 during a period when the Tajik government was playing up Zoroastrianism as part of the celebrations commemorating ten years of Tajik independence.
His killer, possibly an Islamic radical, was never caught.
A few months later the Tajik Minister of Culture,
Abdulrahim Rahimov, who had spoken publicly in favour of Zoroastrianism on many occasions, was also assassinated. Given the timing of these murders, it is difficult not to see them as part of a violent reaction against the Tajik government’s attempt to promote Zoroastrian identity as a bulwark against political Islam in the country.'
The author is a Canadian professor of Iranian studies.