{"id":161024,"date":"2026-02-23T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=161024"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:48:28","slug":"first-session-of-the-unified-zoroastrian-religious-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=161024","title":{"rendered":"First Session of the Unified Zoroastrian Religious Examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The first session of the Unified Zoroastrian Religious Examination for the 1404\u20131405 academic year was held in Yazd Province in parallel with similar examinations in other Zoroastrian-inhabited cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exam was administered to Zoroastrian female and male students in grades seven through twelve on Friday morning, 21 Azar 1404 (12 December 2025), at the Markar Campus in Yazd. The organization and supervision of religious education programs in Yazd are carried out by the Zoroastrian Religious Commission of Yazd, chaired by Fereydoun Kashmiri.<\/p>\n<p>This coordinated examination was held simultaneously in several cities with active Zoroastrian communities, including Tehran, Yazd, Kerman, Shiraz, and Karaj, reflecting a unified national approach to religious education and assessment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161025 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2-10-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2-10-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2-10-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161026 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3-7-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3-7-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3-7-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161027 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5-6-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5-6-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5-6-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161028 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6-6-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6-6.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161029 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7-6-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7-6-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7-6.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161030 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/11-8-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/11-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/11-8.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161031 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17-4.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161032 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/25-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/25-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/25-3.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first session of the Unified Zoroastrian Religious Examination for the 1404\u20131405 academic year was held in Yazd Province in parallel with similar examinations in other Zoroastrian-inhabited cities. The exam was administered to Zoroastrian female and male students in grades seven through twelve on Friday morning, 21 Azar 1404 (12 December 2025), at the Markar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":161028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1464,92],"class_list":["post-161024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-unified-zoroastrian-religious-examination","tag-yazd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161033,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161024\/revisions\/161033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}