Center for Strategic Research () is a leading Iranian think tank on

strategy Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία ''stratēgia'', "troop leadership; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the " a ...

issues. It is the research arm of the Iranian state's

Expediency Discernment Council The Expediency Discernment Council of the System ( ''Majma'-e Tašxis-e Maslahat-e Nezâm'') is an administrative assembly of Iran appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Supreme Leader and was created upon the revision to the Constitution of ...

. Prof. Mohammad Reza Majidi is the head of center. Before that, the head of organization was

Ali Akbar Velayati Ali Akbar Velayati ( ; born 24 June 1945) is an Iranian conservative politician and physician. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Velayati is a distinguished professor at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Scien ...

who replaced former head

Hassan Rouhani Hassan Rouhani (; born Hassan Fereydoun, 12 November 1948) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), academic, former diplomat and Islamic cl ...

, the former

President of Iran The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran () is the head of government of the Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the Supreme Leader of Iran, supreme leader. The 1980 Iranian presidential election, fi ...

. It was established in 1989. It publishes
Foreign Relations Quarterly
'
''Rahbord'' (Strategy)
in Persian and
Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs
' in English.

Departments

The CSR has six affiliated departments: * Politics and International Relations Research Department (This department publishes 3 scientific journals: ''Foreign Relations Quarterly, A quarterly Journal of Strategy, Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs).'' * Infrastructure and Production Research Department (This department publishes ''Gozaresh Rahbordi'' (Strategic Report)) *

Economic An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...

Research Department (This department publishes ''Gozaresh-e Pazhouheshhay-e Eqtesadi'' (Economic Research Report)) *

Cultural Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

Research Department (This department publishes ''Gozareshat-e Rahbordi'' (Strategic Reports)) *

Legal Law is a set of rules that are created and are law enforcement, enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a Socia ...

Research and Jurisprudential Studies Department (Publication: ''Gozaresh-e Rahbordi'' (Strategic Report)) * Executive and Information Department

People

;Presidents *

Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha Sayyid Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha (Persian: سید محمد موسوی خوئینی‌ها) (born 1945) is an Iranian cleric and secretary general of the reformist Association of Combatant Clerics. He was the founder of the now defunct '' Salam' ...

(1989–1992) *

(1992–2013) *

(2013–2017) ;Researchers * Saeed Hajjarian

References

External links

Official website
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