Prof. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh (b 1946) is a renowned Iran

Iran

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ian political scientist

Political science

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 and historian.

Mojtahedzadeh is currently a professor of geopolitics

Geopolitics

Geopolitics, from Greek Γη and Πολιτική in broad terms, is a theory that describes the relation between politics and territory whether on local or international scale....

 at Tarbiat Modarres University. He is also the chairman of the London-based Urosevic Research Foundation. He is a member of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran is a group of academics, students and professionals of Iranian and non-Iranian backgrounds formed to oppose sanctions on Iran by the United States.-History:...

 (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

European Parliament

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 organised by the European Greens–European Free Alliance

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Education

• Ph.D. in Political Geography University of London 1990-1993
• D.Phil in Political Geography University of Oxford 1976-1979
• M.A. in Political Geography University of London, transferred to Manchester and Oxford universities 1974-1976
• B.A. in Human and Economic Geography University of Tehran 1967-1971

Positions

• Chairman: Urosevic Research Foundation of London 1985–present
• Visiting Professor: University of Tehran 1997-1999
• Professor of Political Geography and Geopolitics: Tarbiat Modarres University (Tehran) 1999-present
• Senior Research Associate, Geopolitics & International Boundaries Research Centre, SOAS/ University of London 1986-present
• Consultant of United Nations University 1995-1996
• Member of the Board, Society for contemporary Iranian Studies, University of London
• Member of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London

• Books:
• 2007 Boundary Politics and International Boundaries of Iran, Universal Publishers, USA
• 2007 The UAE and Iranian Islands of Tunbs and Abu Musa, Institute International d’ Etudes Strategique, Paris
• 2004 Small Players of the Great Game, Routledge/Curzon, London
• 1999 London and 2002 New York, Security and Territoriality in The Persian Gulf - A Maritime Political Geography, Curzon Press, London.

• 1996 The Amirs of Borderlands and Eastern Iranian Borders, Urosevic Research Foundation, London.

• 1995 The Islands of Tunb and Abu Musa, CNMES/SOAS Occasional Paper Publication, University of London.
• 1992 The Changing World Order and the Geopolitical Regions of The Persian Gulf and Caspian - Central Asia, Urosevic Foundation, London.

• 1991 Political Geography of the Strait of Hormuz, CNMES/SOAS Occasional Paper Publication, University of London.