An analysis of the place of regional development in the macro policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Regional development is one of the most important requirements for comprehensive and sustainable development and achieving it is one of the important goals of development. In the meantime, any kind of macro-planning for development, which in upstream documents such as macro-policies or vision document in the Islamic Republic, must consider a certain amount of acceptable attention, and this is a necessity for the issue of development in Iran. The present article, considering this necessity, seeks to analyze those macro-policies in the Islamic Republic that have dealt with this issue.The main purpose of this study is to answer the question: what is the place of regional development strategy in the macro-policies of the system? And considering the method of qualitative content analysis, considering the most important variables of regional development, analytically, ponders on the content of texts and upstream documents of the Islamic Republic and analyzes them in terms of content, in order to achieve the position of regional development. And considering that the upstream documents are considered as documents for development strategies, and as a result of regional development, it was concluded that these documents generally do not have a clear strategy for regional development and their main tendency is towards development. It is centralist and here it is necessary to create a specific topic called regional development so that they can be as strategies for regional development and the basis for laws that, while paying attention to decentralization in development, achieve the most important goal of regional development, decentralization.