Nietzsche and Zoroaster

I posted a piece by Nushin Namazi on Zoroaster and commented: "Zoroaster is seldom mentioned in religious discussions, but it inspired Nietzsche's best known work, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-5) in which he developed his ideas on the death of God, the superman and the will to power. It was his effort to set up an alternative to Christianity. My impression is that he totally misrepresented the ideas of Zoroaster=. Christopher Jones comments: "Nushin Namazi's comment on Zoroastrianism would have pleased Nietzsche. Of course, he took it one step further by proclaiming Christianity, Judaism and Islam "fakes" because they were all in a way plagiarisms of Zoroaster's religion. I believe that the Pahlevi monarchy discreetly supported the Zoroastrian religion, and I have often wondered why Reza Shah or his son never converted themselves -- after all they revived the name "Iran" over the westernized "Persia" and "Pahlevi" is also from pre-Islamic Iran. I have heard that the famous Bombay Parsi community is not doing well and that its "towers of silence" (the towers where corpses are deposited to be eaten by vultures) could become a thing of the past -- is there any truth to this?" RH: I repeat my comment that Nietzshe totally misrepresented the ideas of Zoroaster". [Tom Grey]