Challenge of the modern state of Pahlavi and Tribe: Obstacle of Political Development

Political participation based on national loyalty of the ethnic and religious minorities residing in a country is one of the fundamental pillars of the communities being politically developed. Though the grounding for modernity growth and the entry of the essential concepts related thereto was set during the period of Reza Shah, but, practically, the Pahlavi state stood far away from achieving political development bearing the participation of the entire clans and ethnicities and the groups living in this territory. The current research paper tries to adjust the modernism theories and modern government with Iran’s status so as to criticize the centrism tendencies of the Pahlavi’s modern government. It seems that in communities based on ethnic and tribal minorities, such a condition makes achievement of modern development impossible, and forces the modern state to use the mandatory and controlling practices to restrain these minorities in order to implement the goals and objectives desired.