Assessing the Strategies of the Iranian Crisis Management System in Response to the Covid-19 Threats

The main objective of crisis management is to identify and prioritize crisis threats to formulate the best strategy for confronting the most immediate threat. With this explanation, by addressing the main threats to the country in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the pertinent solutions, the author of the present paper examines the Iranian government's performance in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. The research method is descriptive-analytical and data collected through interviews with academic elites and experts. AHP used to determine the priority of threats. According to the results, security threats identified as the most important threats, followed by economic threats, health threats, threats in management-politics area and threats in the community context. The government's response has been formulated in the form of adopting a strategy of avoidance in the field of security, transfer strategy in economy, mitigation strategy in health, transfer strategy in management and acceptance-mitigation strategy in community.