On 26th November 2011, foreign diplomatic delegations, from the African and European countries, going through a diplomatic educational training course, at the School of International Relations (SIR) of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies.

Director Kayhan Barzegar inaugurates the first Visiting Research Fellow Program at the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS) in Tehran. In his introductory remarks, Dr. Barzegar asserts that the Institution’s Visiting Research Fellow Program is novel in Iran and has been designed to fulfill the existing gap between the academic and practical policy-making communities in research are...

Ms. Manuela Paraypan is journalist, analyst and authored articles, reports and policy studies on human rights in Lebanon, Middle East politics, Islamic movements, global governance and economic advancement in underdeveloped countries. She also met, worked with, and interviewed, a very diverse group of individuals, from state presidents, to prime ministers, ministers, diplomats, members of parliame...

On May 24, 2011, the members of diplomatic missions from Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe, as the guests of the School of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited the Center for Scientific Research and Middle East Strategic Studies and exchanged views with the scientific and executive staff of the Center. At the beginning of this meeting, Dr. Kayhan Barzeg...