Cultural-Political Development in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Analysis of Transformations of ۱۹۹۰-۱۹۹۸

Considering the inclusion of cultural-political orientation in the propaganda of the Islamic
Republic (Independence, Freedom, Islamic Republic), the present paper aims to address how
the cultural-political development in the Islamic Republic of Iran could be analyzed and
evaluated in the period ۱۹۹۰-۱۹۹۸, i.e. the first years following the Islamic Republic and the
Imposed War. The answer that will be analyzed in this research is that in this period, despite the
foreign historical hindrance and domestic mental impediments, which made cultural-political
developments face various dilemmas, the government’s cultural-political development,
endeavors of political forces and theoretical experts created a positive transformation in
cultural-political development. The reasoning set out in this paper is that, based on the modified
Communicative Action Theory and its adaptation to the Iranian history and society, and also the
dominant religious traditions in the social relations in Iran, the first revision of the Constitution
led to some cultural-political practices from government and some cultural-political efforts by
the experts and political forces which, ultimately, resulted in an open cultural, and somehow
political, atmosphere. These are clues to the cultural-political development in this period.

Keywords:

Communicative Action , Cultural-political development , Critical Theory , religious tradition , the period of ۱۹۹۰-۱۹۹۸.