Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh passed away

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, the prominent figure of political geography and prominent professor of Persian Gulf studies, died in London at the age of 81 after a period of illness.

According to the reporter of Ambassador Arjan of Iran, Dr. Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, a famous professor of political geography and geopolitics, passed away (October 23, 1405) after a long and difficult period of illness at the age of 81 in London.

Mojtahedzadeh was born on 20th of Bahman 1324 in Noor city of Mazandaran and completed his higher education in Tehran, Manchester and Oxford universities in the field of political geography and geopolitics. He had more than four decades of teaching and research experience at the University of London, the Center for Geopolitical Studies and International Borders of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), as well as some universities in the country.

This late professor authored several research and reference works about Iran's territorial integrity, borders and national interests, the most important of which are "Persian Gulf Sheikhs", "Iran's Sovereignty over Tonb and Abu Musa Islands", "Persian Gulf Historical Geography: Persian Gulf is a name older than history", "Small Players in the Big Game: Establishing Iran's Eastern Borders and the Origin of Afghanistan", "Border Policies and International Borders". Iran", "Security and Territorialism in the Persian Gulf", "Maritime Political Geography" and "Emirs of Iran's Eastern Borders" mentioned.

His documented, legal and explicit defenses in international forums and correspondence with the rulers of the countries of the region about Iran's sovereignty over the three islands are among the most prominent parts of the scientific and national record of this eminent researcher. In recent decades, despite difficulties and illness, he traveled to Iran and continued to teach and transfer knowledge to the country's students until his last years.

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, the prominent figure of political geography and prominent professor of Persian Gulf studies, died in London at the age of 81 after a period of illness.

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