The political concepts in contemporary Iran are so confused that they resulted in a kind of conceptual crisis. The crisis originates from the peculiarities of the political sciences discipline, the characteristics of the political concepts in Iran, the confrontation of tradition (and religion) to modernity, and finally the ambiguities of concepts. The article also studies the confusion of the following political concepts in Iran: politics and political sciences, state, the legitimacy of the political system, ideology, the left and the right, party, civil society, and democracy.
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