A "discursive programming model" as a methodological model for the theorizing of Islamic-Iranian progress in the thought of Ayatollah Khamenei

The essential precondition for designing the "Islamic and Iranian Model of Progress" is the recognition of the Supreme Leader's intellectual system about it. However, previous studies have failed to provide a framework for understanding this intellectual system based on a comprehensive research program. This article, after examining different methods, has proposed a syncretic model of the "Lakatos strategic plan" and "Discourse theory" as a methodological model for studying and organizing Ayatollah Khamenei's thought as a documentary for the design of Islamic Iranian model of progress. Then, based on the model presented and by examining all the statements and prescriptions of the leader of the revolution from 1989 to 2017, has categorized the indices and major discourses of Islamic Iranian progress in with the appropriateness and interrelations between the three concepts of progress, Islam and Iran.