page_title: Intellectual movements in Iran
section_title: Other notable figures
hierarchical_section_title: Intellectual movements in Iran / Intellectual circles in late 20th century / Other notable figures
caption_attribution_description: English: Pathologist Dr M Bahadori
context_page_description: Intellectual movements in Iran involve the Iranian experience of modernity and its associated art, science, literature, poetry, and political structures that have been changing since the 19th century.
context_section_description: There are several intellectual figures who continue to be very influential in Iranian society, while they do not belong to any of the above-mentioned philosophical circles:
  Scholars:
  Yadollah Sahabi, prominent academic, writer and scientist
  Mohammad Gharib, pioneering physician and academic
  Fereydoun Hoveyda (prominent scholar, writer and filmmaker)
  Daryoush Ashouri (prominent scholar, linguist and cultural theorist)
  Masoud Behnoud (prominent journalist and writer)
  Parviz Varjavand (scholar, archeologist and expert of cultural heritage)
  Farrokhroo Parsa (scholar, politician and physician; first female minister of Iran)
  Economists:
  Mousa Ghaninejad (senior Iranian economist)
  Fariborz Rais-Dana (senior economist)
  Experts on law and political sciences:
  Davoud Hermidas-Bavand (prominent scholar and political scientist)
  Amir Nasser Katouzian (Tehran University professor of law and political sciences)
  Jamshid Momtaz (Tehran University professor of international law)
  Javad Zarif (prominent scholar, political analyst and expert on international relations)
  Sadeq Zibakalam (leading political scientist and professor of Tehran University)
  Amir Attaran lawyer and immunologist; expert on public health and global development issues.
  Elaheh Koulaei (political scientist and expert on USSR at Tehran University)
caption: Prof Moslem Bahadori, one of the pioneering figures in modern Iranian medicine
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