A Study of the Role of Crisis Management in Mitigating the Vulnerability of Social Subsystems in Iraq-Iran War

This article aims at studying the role of crisis management in decreasing the vulnerability of social subsystems in Iraq-Iran war. In so doing, this article tries to examine the vulnerability of (behavioral organism, personality, social and cultural) sub-systems in temporal dimensions of the crisis by emphasizing Parson's theory. Considering that fact that more than three decades have passed since the beginning of Iran-Iraq war, the method used in this research is documentary-library. The findings of this research show that behavioral organism system underwent a severe harm, and caused most of the objectives formulated by the micro-social system to fail; however, crisis management carried out proved by controlling the price of oil that Iran's economy was more resilient that what was expected. Although personality subsystem incurred much harm, Imam Khomeini's management of war shows a unique model of managing political crises. Social subsystem also incurred much harm with the advent of People's Mujahedin of Iran, but Imam Khomeini's style managing crises resolved the divisions by emphasizing the divisions. However, finally, cultural subsystem, under the influence of war, managed to restore value-based concepts such as sacrificing oneself, resistance and defense and develop them throughout the society.