Challenges and Strategies of Access to Pahlavi Period Documents

The documents of the Pahlavi period should be considered the most important source of historical research among the available documents from this period, and scientific research in this field should be validated based on the use of this type of sources. There is a lot of material about the importance of using documents in the production of knowledge, but in short, it should be said that in contemporary studies, any scientific research without the use of documents does not have enough credibility, and it is necessary for every Pahlavi history researcher, which before Compilation of any scientific work, first of all, a comprehensive study of the documents of this period, on the subject under discussion, and to organize her research by relying on these sources. But the study of documents has a necessary introduction, and that is that before starting the research, the researchers should have a complete and accurate knowledge of the document centers, and be aware of the challenges and strategies of accessing the documents of the centers. This article, which is placed in the framework of strategic studies and is organized based on the strategic research method, seeks to identify the challenges of this field and provide strategies corresponding to them. It is also necessary to explain that due to the short life of the archival centers in Iran, the use of documents in historical research has not yet become a regular official, therefore, no specific research has been done regarding the challenges of accessing documents (especially documents of the Pahlavi period). And literature in this regard was not found in the searches