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About The Iranian Centre for Policy Studies
The mission of ICPS, established in 2017, is to provide an accurate examination of events that shape
Iranian domestic and foreign policy with the distinct aim that its analysis may help the adoption of
policies that best promote and protect the national interest of the Iranian nation.
The complex circumstances in the region and the world in recent years and its implications on Iranian
politics, especially in the aftermath of the nuclear agreement, have interjected Iran into a new era much
different than its past.
This new era has three distinct features:
1. The increasing empowerment of technocrats in Iran and their insistence on
establishing constructive relations with the outside world and regional peace
2. The rising status of educated middle classes in Iran and their demands
3. The increasingly important role-played by social media and Internet
communications in the world.
In such times, simple reliance upon traditional findings based on out-dated
analytic yardsticks and simplified deductions in trying to understand day-to-day
or even hourly changes and developments within the country, can lead to
serious oversights which can in turn deprive Iran, the regions and the wider
world of rare opportunities that avail themselves for promoting peaceful change
within Iran along with constructive relations with the outside world.
At present, there are a number of important research centres within Iran
charged with the task of collecting facts and providing policy analysis. However,
given the fact that they are closely tied with either the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
or other governmental institutions, they are understandably restricted in
providing unbiased and objective reporting that is unrestricted by certain
obvious boundaries.
With the help of Iranian experts both inside and outside Iran, the Iranian Centre
for Political Studies (ICPS), intends to fill this void by providing an independent
and realistic outlook in the following areas:
1. Daily News Analysis carried out by the collecting data following daily cyber
communication with social and political experts inside Iran and the provision of
a daily bulletin consisting of short and simple analysis of key developments at
the end of each working day (central European time zone).
2. Weekly News Analysis based on a more in-depth study and analysis of
developments as well as the provision of responses to specific questions (or
enquiries) posed by subscribers.
3. Monthly News Analysis/roundtable conferences/seminars with the presence
of key experts in various fields to discuss all issues of interests.
4. Provision of special quarterly reports on various policy issues in 4 languages:
Farsi, English, Arabic and French.
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