# Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh (Persian: پیروز مجتهدزاده; born 9 February 1946) is an Iranian political scientist and historian. He is a prominent Iranologist, geopolitics researcher, historian and political scientist. He worked in Iranian universities as a geopolitics professor from 1999 to 2014, namely Tarbiat Modares University, University of Tehran and Shahid Beheshti University. He was fired from Tarbiat Modares University in 2014 by Revolutionary Guard Officer Sardar Yahya Rahim Safavi for expressing views in opposition to the Islamic regime. He is an advisor of the United Nations University.
Mojtahedzadeh has published more than 20 books in Persian, English and Arabic on the geopolitics of Persian Gulf region and modern discourses in international relations. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He has been a member of the British Institute of Iranian Studies since 1993. Mojtahedzadeh earned a Ph.D. in political geography from the University of London in 1993 and a Ph.D. in political geography from the University of Oxford in 1979.
In June of 2004, Mojtahedzadeh co-authored an article with Kaveh Afrasiabi, titled "Iran's nuclear program : Threats are not the way to influence Tehran". Afrasiabi was later arrested by the FBI for working as an unregistered agent of the Iranian government and also part of the prisoner hostage exchange.
Mojtahedzadeh is a member of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) UK. On 4 July 2007, he made a presentation regarding Iran's energy needs and its nuclear energy program at a conference at the European Parliament organized by the European Greens–European Free Alliance.

## Education

* 1967–71: University of Tehran - B.A. in human and economic geography
* 1974–76: University of Manchester - M.A. in political geography
* 1976–79: University of Oxford - D.Phil. in political geography
* 1990–93: University of London - Ph.D. in political geography

## Positions

* 1985–2011: Chairman: Urosevic Research Foundation of London
* 1997–99: Visiting Professor: University of Tehran
* 1999–present: Professor of Political Geography and Geopolitics: Tarbiat Modarres University (Tehran)
* 1986–present: Senior Research Associate, Geopolitics & International Boundaries Research Centre, SOAS/University of London
* 1995–96: Consultant of United Nations University
* Member of the Board, Society for contemporary Iranian Studies, University of London
* Member of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London
* 2008: a key member of Persian Gulf Studies Center

## Books

* Political Geography of the Strait of Hormuz (1991, CNMES/SOAS Occasional Paper Publication, University of London)
* The Changing World Order and the Geopolitical Regions of The Persian Gulf and Caspian - Central Asia (1992, Urosevic Foundation, London)
* The Islands of Tunb and Abu Musa (1995, CNMES/SOAS Occasional Paper Publication, University of London)
* The Amirs of Borderlands and Eastern Iranian Borders (1996, Urosevic Research Foundation, London)
* Security and Territoriality in The Persian Gulf - A Maritime Political Geography (1999 London, Curzon Press, London, and 2002 New York)
* Small Players of the Great Game (2004, Routledge/Curzon, London)
* Boundary Politics and International Boundaries of Iran (2007, Universal Publishers, USA)
* The UAE and Iranian Islands of Tunbs and Abu Musa (2007, Institute International d’ Etudes Strategique, Paris)