Announcement: Peyrooz Mojtahedzadeh has died

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, a researcher of political geography and geopolitics in Iran, has died. Hommīhan reported his passing and described his decades of scholarly work on Iran’s borders, the Persian Gulf, and territorial issues. ▸ The report said he was a well-known figure in discussions of Iran’s political geography; it urged that his intellectual legacy, like that of other academics, should be evaluated critically rather than mythologized or erased. ▸ Hommīhan also noted that some of his views and positions were contested and criticized; it said revisiting his writings and conducting critical assessments of his record could clarify both the contributions and the limits of his thinking on Iran’s geopolitics.