Research Process on Contemporary Iran’s Political Development Process

Although historical background of academic discussions on political development, at the international level, refers to fifty years ago, human societies have been always seeking to achieve political indicators of the development as well as the desirability of political development as unachievable goals, especially in recent centuries. Iran can be made such progresses in order to achieve this goal since the beginning of this century. There are major political developments in Iran's contemporary history such as the Constitutional Revolution (1285), open political atmosphere caused by the change of power in Pahlavi Dynasty (1320), the nationalization of oil industry and the pursuit of a democratic government by Dr. Mossadegh (1329-1332), and also the Islamic Revolution of Iran in1979. The present study lays out indicators of political development as well as the desirability of political development through using Samuel Huntington’s thesis of democratic waves as well as it analyses socio-political situations in different eras of Iranian contemporary history on research process- based method with an approach on futures studies. Results of the research process reveal that in spite of lengthening to achieve the process of political development, gradual pavement of infrastructures of development as well as its institutionalization (after Islamic Revolution) caused that some processes such as undevelopment or authoritarianism will be disappeared much in Iranian society.