Center for Strategic Studies explained

Center for Strategic Studies
Abbreviation:	CSS
Formation:	1997
Type:	Think tank
Headquarters:	Pasteur Street
Location:	Tehran, Iran
Leader Title:	President
Leader Name:	TBA
Website:	css.ir

Center for Strategic Studies (Persian: مرکز بررسی‌های استراتژیک) is an Iranian think tank on strategy issues. It is the research arm of the Iranian President's office.

History

CSS was established in 1997 as a counterpart of Center for Strategic Research.

Heads

Mohammad Reza Tajik
Alireza Zaker Esfahani
Parviz Davoodi
Hesamodin Ashna
Ali Rabii
Mohammad Sadegh Khayatian
Mostafa Zamanian
Mohammad Javad Zarif

Challenges

The center was led by Hesamoddin Ashna in Rouhani's Government, but Ashna resigned after an internal interview with Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was leaked. ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

References

Web site: Shakeup in Iran's presidential office after leaked FM tape. Associated Press. 29 April 2021.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-22/iran-s-hardliners-fall-into-line-backing-zarif-in-nuclear-talks Iran’s Hardliners Fall Into Line Backing Zarif in Nuclear Talks
Web site: Joining forces to save Iran’s drying wetlands . 2017-01-16 . 2017-08-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170810015613/http://www.ir.undp.org/content/iran/en/home/presscenter/articles/2016/02/21/oining-forces-to-save-iran-s-drying-wetlands.html . dead .
https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2016/06/01/inter-army-cooperation-explored,108162195-ART Inter-army cooperation explored
http://www.agi.it/international/2016/01/26/news/exhibition_celebrates_italy_and_irans_archeological_work-454783/ Exhibition celebrates Italy and Iran's archeological work
https://iranwire.com/en/features/1727 Khamenei goes Ballistic over Missile Tests
http://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2014/aug/12/irans-leaders-iraq-crisis-and-isis Iran's Leaders on Iraq Crisis and ISIS

External links

Center for Strategic Studies