Jalal Yousefi - University lecturer and researcher in development studies, Tehran- Iran.
Mohammadhadi Mansourilakoorej, - Faculty member of Anthropology Department, Central Tehran Azad University, Tehran-Iran
Mohammad Mahdi Yousefi, - Research and Strategic Development Deputy of Nasim-e Sobhe Rouyesh Institute, and Researcher of Social Issues, Tehran-Iran
Raheleh Esmaili - Researche in Anthropology, India

This research is about the developments of nomadic life in Iran. In this research, the required data has been collected by documentary method and then descriptive-analytical method has been used. Nomads with a long history were important to the country both economically and militarily, but gradually after the Constitutional Revolution, and especially since the time of Reza Khan, went extinct. So that the nomadic population that once constituted ۳۰ percent of the population of Iran, according to the latest census of nomadic tribes in the country, less than one million and two hundred thousand people have a nomadic population. According to the data of this study, the nomadic life affected by the modernization and programs settlement of the former regime has undergone a fundamental change and the post-revolutionary programs in the field of nomadic settlement have also failed.

Nomads, Nomadic settlement, Modernization, Land reform, Nomadism