Critical Reappraisal of Higher Education in Iran with Emphasis on National Security

The aim of this research is to explain and analysis the challenges of Iran’s higher education and its impact on national security and its susceptibility with systemic approaches and software theories of security.
This research has been conducted with method of causal & analytical explanation.
Supreme education in today Iran has been confronted with some fundamental challenges such as: much priority of quantitative dimension on qualitative ones, relative isolation of universities from society and its needs, dominancy of structure on agency and individual actors, penetrability of universities from political mainstreams and power-based relations and non-sufficient equipments. These challenges have been led to non-satisfaction of expectation for higher education in ideal form and so may be harmful to the national security.
Higher education and universities as one of the important foundations of national securities and so shall be used from all of its scientific and research capacities. The national authority and security is not attained with symbolic dimension and so necessitate the political, cultural, social, scientific and motivational procedures and serious and continuous actions for extension of knowledge and universities.