Iran's Popular Army of Strategists in the Making and the Role of Think Tanks Today and in Future
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Despite the fact that the two languages are mutually unintelligible, some Urdu words (maybe some 7%-8%, that's just a guess) have Persian etymological roots. And the grammar is very similar. Also, the lexical use of Arabic words in both Persian and Urdu (which sometimes differs from their use in Arabic) is practically the same.
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Farsi in written form can be somehow understood by an urdu speaker by catching common words but impossible to understand anything in spoken farsi.
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In addition to subjects mentioned in the thread title, Dr. Abbasi touches upon other interesting questions in this interview:
* Institutional history of Iran's security forces, how and when some branches merged to give birth to new bodies etc.
* An overview of universities, research centers and think tanks linked to different security institutions and armed forces branches, as well as their evolution.
* How Dr. Abbasi's Andishkadeh is one of only three think tanks worldwide to work on the doctrinal level, in contrast to ordinary think tanks which reflect on policy only after the guiding doctrine was defined.
* The difference between think tanks, universities and classic research centers. How think tanks are gradually replacing the latter in certain fields, and also how they are taking over some of the roles traditionally attributed to political parties. The opportunity think tanks represent for dishinerited nations resisting imperialism.
* The indigenization of science by Iran, away from the western- and zionist-centric ideological orientation of many disciplines (particularly in humanities and social science), which represents an absolute imperative for the civilizational movement rooted in the Islamic Revolution. This work has yet to be completed.
So for interested Iranians, this makes for some very pleasant and informative viewing. I recommend it.
* Institutional history of Iran's security forces, how and when some branches merged to give birth to new bodies etc.
* An overview of universities, research centers and think tanks linked to different security institutions and armed forces branches, as well as their evolution.
* How Dr. Abbasi's Andishkadeh is one of only three think tanks worldwide to work on the doctrinal level, in contrast to ordinary think tanks which reflect on policy only after the guiding doctrine was defined.
* The difference between think tanks, universities and classic research centers. How think tanks are gradually replacing the latter in certain fields, and also how they are taking over some of the roles traditionally attributed to political parties. The opportunity think tanks represent for dishinerited nations resisting imperialism.
* The indigenization of science by Iran, away from the western- and zionist-centric ideological orientation of many disciplines (particularly in humanities and social science), which represents an absolute imperative for the civilizational movement rooted in the Islamic Revolution. This work has yet to be completed.
So for interested Iranians, this makes for some very pleasant and informative viewing. I recommend it.
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