Conda activate repetitive error on MacOS

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I constantly get the following error upon conda activate base on my MacOS Monterey iTerm2 terminals:

% conda activate base

CommandNotFoundError: Your shell has not been properly configured to use 'conda activate'.
To initialize your shell, run

    $ conda init <SHELL_NAME>

Currently supported shells are:
  - bash
  - fish
  - tcsh
  - xonsh
  - zsh
  - powershell

See 'conda init --help' for more information and options.

IMPORTANT: You may need to close and restart your shell after running 'conda init'.

Steps I have taken so far:

0-Extensive google search!

1- Tried conda init :

% conda init
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/condabin/conda
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/bin/conda
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/bin/conda-env
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/bin/activate
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/bin/deactivate
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/etc/fish/conf.d/conda.fish
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/shell/condabin/Conda.psm1
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/shell/condabin/conda-hook.ps1
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xontrib/conda.xsh
no change     /Users/myname/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.csh
no change     /Users/myname/.bash_profile
No action taken.

2- Uninstalled AND re-installed a fresh miniconda (I did this several times)

3- Switched my shell from zsh to bash and vice versa

4- Uninstalled AND re-installed iTerm2 (the powerful and famous terminal app on MacOS, which is my default terminal app)

5- Followed this post:

% source ~/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh

/Users/myname/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh:21: parse error near `}'

6- Added/commented following lines to ~/.zshrc :

source ~/.bash_profile
export PATH="/Users/ruhollah/miniconda3/bin:$PATH"

Here is some info of my system:

> MacOS Monterey 12.6.2
> zsh 5.8.1
>  % conda info

     active environment : None
       user config file : /Users/myname/.condarc
 populated config files :
          conda version : 22.11.1
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.10.8.final.0
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=x86_64
                          __osx=10.16=0
                          __unix=0=0
       base environment : /Users/myname/miniconda3  (writable)
      conda av data dir : /Users/myname/miniconda3/etc/conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/osx-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/osx-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
          package cache : /Users/myname/miniconda3/pkgs
                          /Users/myname/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /Users/myname/miniconda3/envs
                          /Users/myname/.conda/envs
               platform : osx-64
             user-agent : conda/22.11.1 requests/2.28.1 CPython/3.10.8 Darwin/21.6.0 OSX/10.16
                UID:GID : 501:20
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False