page_title: Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh
section_title: Positions
hierarchical_section_title: Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh / Positions
caption_attribution_description: English: Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh - 2002
context_page_description: Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh is an Iranian political scientist and historian.
  He is a prominent Iranologist, geopolitics researcher, historian and political scientist. He teaches geopolitics at the Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran. He has been the 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.
  Mojtahedzadeh is currently a professor of geopolitics at Tarbiat Modares University. He is a member of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran 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 organised by the European Greens–European Free Alliance.
context_section_description: 1985–2011: Chairman: Urosevic Research Foundation of London
  1997-1999: 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
  1995-1996: 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
caption: Mojtahedzadeh in 2002
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