Hassan Bakhtiar Embraces Self-Help

TEHRAN, Iran

Last year Hassan Bakhtiar couldn’t find a job and his mother said to pray and read the Koran. Instead, the 25-year-old took part in Iran’s most famous motivational and self-help guru Alireza Azmandian. Hassan now meditates staring at a candle and chanting inspirational chants. He says:

“Religion doesn’t offer me answers any more,” Bakhtiar says, after listening to Azmandian at a public auditorium in a shabby neighborhood of south Tehran. But, he says, “this seminar changed my life.”

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