Cultural-Political Development in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Analysis of Transformations of 1990-1998

Considering the inclusion of cultural-political orientation in the propaganda of the Islamic Republic (Independence, Freedom, Islamic Republic), the present paper aims to address how the cultural-political development in the Islamic Republic of Iran could be analyzed and evaluated in the period 1990-1998, i.e. the first years following the Islamic Republic and the Imposed War. The answer that will be analyzed in this research is that in this period, despite the foreign historical hindrance and domestic mental impediments, which made cultural-political developments face various dilemmas, the government’s cultural-political development, endeavors of political forces and theoretical experts created a positive transformation in cultural-political development. The reasoning set out in this paper is that, based on the modified Communicative Action Theory and its adaptation to the Iranian history and society, and also the dominant religious traditions in the social relations in Iran, the first revision of the Constitution led to some cultural-political practices from government and some cultural-political efforts by the experts and political forces which, ultimately, resulted in an open cultural, and somehow political, atmosphere. These are clues to the cultural-political development in this period.