Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh
Professor 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.Education
- 1967-1971: University of Tehran - B.A. in human and economic geography
- 1974-1976: University of London, transferred to Manchester and Oxford universities - M.A. in political geography
- 1976-1979: University of Oxford - D.Phil. in political geography
- 1990-1993: University of London - Ph.D. in political geography
Positions
- 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
- 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
Books
- Political Geography of the Strait of Hormuz
- The Changing World Order and the Geopolitical Regions of The Persian Gulf and Caspian - Central Asia
- The Islands of Tunb and Abu Musa
- The Amirs of Borderlands and Eastern Iranian Borders
- Security and Territoriality in The Persian Gulf - A Maritime Political Geography
- Small Players of the Great Game
- Boundary Politics and International Boundaries of Iran
- The UAE and Iranian Islands of Tunbs and Abu Musa
