Abbreviation IPIS Director-General Mostafa Zahrani | Formation 1983 | |
Headquarters Shahid Aghaei St., Shahid Bahonar Ave., Niavaran | ||
The Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) (Persian: دفتر مطالعات سیاسی و بین المللی) is a foreign policy think tank based in Tehran, Iran and affiliated to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was founded in 1983 as one of the first think tanks in Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution with the task of leading and encouraging the study and research on issues relevant to the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The scientific and analytic findings of the Institute are made available to senior policy makers and interested scholars in the form of books, journals, bulletins and reports. IPIS organises seminars, roundtables, as well as annual conferences. More than 30 roundtables and seminars are organised every year between IPIS and other foreign research counterparts at home and abroad in which bilateral and multilateral issues are discussed.
IPIS's Director-General is Mostafa Zahrani, and Deputy Director-General is Ahmad Sadeghi.