Was Zoroaster (the founder of Zoroastrianism) A Hindu???

A TV pro gramme on religion stated that Zoroaster was a Hindu Brahman. Are there any Zoroastrians that can clarify???
Uzi, Hinduism has been around 000s years before Zoroastrianism. Also, Hinduism, at it's fundamental core, is a monotheistic religion as well (read the Vedas and Upanishads).
Apicole, I KNOW that he was "Persian" (modern day Iran), but I want to know if he was a "Hindu", as this TV documentary implied. According to this pro gramme, Zoroaster was a "Hindu Brahmin" who experienced a revelation while he was out collecting items for his worship.
Samantha, can you please give me some references. I don't remember India ever being part of the Persian empire. India never even existed until 1947. Maybe Afghanistan and northern pakistan were part of the Persian empire, but before the delhi sultanate was established in 7th century, Indian lands have ALWAYS belonged to Hindus.
Samantha you are right..Nader Shah conquered only the top half of Pakistan. He was never able to conquer anything else. At the time "India" didn't exist and indian lands were in a state of many many different kingdoms. Nader Shah only conquered a few provinces from what is present day Pakistan. That is why these northern pakistanis think themselves as superior to the other pakistanis cos they believe that they have persian blood

I am fully aware that Zoroaster was a persian, but what I want to know is "was his religion the vedic religion of hindus?" It would have still been possible for him to be a persian hindu, because hindu is not an ethnicity but a religion. I am in no way suggesting that he was Indian - i know that he was obviously persian. But this programme said that he was a Hindu. Before the arrival of Islam, the entire Afghanistan eastwards and southwards were Hindu/Buddhist people. So it may have been possible that Zoroaster was a Hindu. I myself don't know.

wow. I've never heard that one before and i doubt it. Because Zoroaster was monotheistic and Hindu isn't. Unless they mean that Hinduism evolved from Zoroastrianism which i will agree with. Almost all the Major religions got their major concepts (egg the dichotomy of good and evil) from Zoroaster's teaching

I always thought that Zoroaster was a Persian prince since Zoroastrianism was the official religion of Iran, before it was conquered by the Arabs.
Zoroastrians are wonderfully nice people. I had many as friends when going to school.
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I downloaded and read a book called "The New Garden" about Zoroaster and other prophets. There is no doubt that he was born in Iran.

No... Zoroaster was Persian...

If that is what Urey asking!

Persia was the first monotheistic empire... with the head of it being Cyrus the Great... the start of the Achamenian dynasty...
And back then... India was part of Persia... haven't u heard the phrase "from the walls of China to the borders of Rome"?
That was the Persian lands...
But later on... as Islam moved to Iran/Persia... Zoroastrians moved to India... at the same time... the Persian land was shrinking...






EDIT:
The reason I remember the phrase "from the walls of China to the borders of Rome" is BC we've learned it in school... in history class
One of the last kings that had India under his ruling... was Nader Shah Afshar... from the Afsharieh dynasty... he was the one who took the huge diamond n then later on gave it as a gift to England... half (maybe the whole thing) of the diamond is now sitting on a crown in a museum (or maybe on Queen Elizabeth's crown... I've forgotten the diamonds current whereabouts...)...
BUT at the time of Achamenian dynasty... the capital of Persia was further towards east... rather than in the current lands of Iran... mostly BC they wanted it to be in the middle... to have easy access to all four corners of the country...
Plus... the borders of Rome part... if I remember correctly... the lands between Persia and Rome were kinda switching around from war to war...

Remember... the Achamenian dynasty started around 2500 years ago... which is around the same time that the Zoroastrian religion started...

I'll look for some .EDU links... n I'll post it later on...

I did a bit of a study on Early Mesopotamian belief systems some time ago you can find it in the link below

I read somewhere that Zoroaster's "tribe" were cattle herders and that is what led to the Hindu respect of cows. So if that is true then Zoroaster would have influenced Hinduism. But I really don't know myself.

Yes he was.....(u hear that Persian nemesis)