Iran Rural Development Perspective: Theoretical Foundations, Prerequisites and Obligations

Unfolding the potentials and capacities of rural areas is one of the underlying goals of the rural development. These potentials and capacities are fulfilled, through an ideal purposive decision making, within a strategic planning framework. These approaches flourish entrepreneurship and collective production and institutionalize the right of development and decent life in the bio-action spaces (rural areas). A software approach to rural development, mass production, clustered organization and networking make the targets achievable. In this process, motivation, which is a crucial factor in rural development, constructs an opportunity space through a selected perspective. This article based on specific theoretical foundations, prerequisities and obligations towards rural development and a descriptive – analytic methodology, analyses the findings of a field study. The results in rural society of Iran, on the one hand, and diversity of rural areas, on the other, require a regional categorization, which through homogenization of the analogous rural area makes a successful community– regional based development planning possible.