Crisis in political sciences in Iran

The paper studies the crisis of knowledge production in Iran and its theoretical, historical, and political dimentions. The crisis is partly rooted in theory and methodology, but it is mainly rooted in the socio-political structures of the Iranian society which is indiffernt to knowledge and research. The indifference of the political structure to the political sciences discipline is more than other disciplines due to the special subjects dealt with in the discipline. In spite of the essential role of the discipline in solving Iran's socio-political predicaments, internal inefficiency annd low education are the major reasons for the marginalization of the political sciences, leading to a crisis in the discipline.