head of the Mobidan Association of Tehran, described the idea of Saoshyant as a promised one came from the Jews. With the Islamic conquest of Persia, the idea of such a savior became more widespread among the Zoroastrians.

Cyrus Niknam, a Mobad, writes that the idea of a savior is a wrong interpretation by the priests of the Sassanian era. He argues instead that the word Saoshyant is about distinguishing the useful and the sacred,