Surviving Zoroastrian State?

What are the chances for the followers of Zoroastrianism founding their own state, separate from Muslim Persia?

Zoroastrianism was tied to Persia, but with the onset of Islam they were largely driven out and moved to the west coast of India. To me this would seems a good place for such a nation, although what the natives would do about it I'm not sure. Does this seem likely?

What do you think?
 
There was also a Persian court in exile set up by the Chinese in their portion of Central Asia for a while. Perhaps you could expand or reinforce that?
 
What are the chances for the followers of Zoroastrianism founding their own state, separate from Muslim Persia?

Zoroastrianism was tied to Persia, but with the onset of Islam they were largely driven out and moved to the west coast of India. To me this would seems a good place for such a nation, although what the natives would do about it I'm not sure. Does this seem likely?

What do you think?

No?

A small diaspora in a foreign land is an unlikely nucleus for a new nation, IMO.

I think your best bet is that Persia stays Zoroastrian. Theoretically, one could imagine the Arabs swarming over the plains and pushing the old religion into the highlands, say, splitting Persia into two states. But it would be tough to make that second state survive, I'd think. Crusades (OK, wrong religion, but you know what I mean) would presumably be launched to wipe the evil unbelievers off the map. Given the disparity in probable power (the muslim ones could call on all the strength of Islam, whereas the Zoroastrians only have their rump state), I think that Islam would win out in this scenario, so it's probably NOT a way of fulfilling your challenge.
 
In that case, my Central Asia example might actually work. The "homeland" of Zoarastrianism was alleged to be not in Persia, but all the way in Fergana, well beyond the reach of the Caliph, at least for a few generations.
 
A substantial diaspora of aristocratic Sassanian émigres and refugees fled to the Chinese cities of Chang’an and Louyang, including Pirooz, the son and heir of Yazdegird III, and exiled Sassanian communities also arose in the Turkic polities of Kashgar and Khotan. In northern Persia, the Zoroastrian and Mazdakite Dailamites successfully resisted Arab-Islamic armies until the AD 771, when they were finally conquered by the Abbasids, and in Persian Azerbaijan in the 9th century Persian nationalist and Zoroastrian Babak Khorramdin led a nearly successful revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
 
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