The Attitude to the 'Other' and to Peace in Iranian School
Textbooks and Teachers' Guides
October 2006

Special thanks to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation
for enabling us to distribute the full report.

Read an Overview of the Report:
    English (pdf, 468 kb)
    French (pdf, 504 kb)
    German (pdf, 150 kb)

Read the Full Report:
    English (pdf, 6.76 mb)

Read the Report by Chapter:
    Table of Contents (pdf, 126 kb)
    Overview (pdf, 126 kb)
    Introduction (pdf, 126 kb)
    Chapter 1: The Iranian Education System (pdf, 121 kb)
    Chapter 2: The Attitude to Other Religions (pdf, 747 kb)
    Chapter 3: The West (pdf, 1.48 mb)
    Chapter 4: The Jews and Israel (pdf, 1.88 mb)
    Chapter 5: Other 'Others' (pdf, 641 kb)
    Chapter 6: Peace and War (pdf, 1 mb)
    Chapter 7: Jihad (pdf, 263 kb)
    Chapter 8: Martyrdom (pdf, 1.51 mb)
    Conclusion (pdf, 111 kb)
    List of Sources (pdf, 104 kb)

Related Readings:

• IMPACT-SE's Report on Iranian Textbooks Discussed on Iranian VOA Program (Video)
  March 25, 2008
  IMPACT-SE's Researcher Shayan Arya participated in an hour long discussion on the popular Persian program "Round Table," produced by Voice of America (VOA), regarding the Iranian school curriculum and IMPACT-SE's report. Dr. Saeed Paivandi of Paris-8 University, who just published a similar report regarding Iran's educational system under the Islamic regime for the Freedom House, also participated.

• Discussion Panel on "Iranian Textbooks: Preparing Iran’s Children for Global Jihad"
  Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, March 10, 2008
  As debates rage about Iran’s nuclear intentions, educational textbooks may serve as one of the more candid guides for discerning this regime’s worldview and ideology. IMPACT-SE researchers, Arnon Groiss and Shayan Arya, covered the Iranian report’s detailed findings and discussed the implications for the United States and the rest of the international community.
  Supporting document: PowerPoint Presentation (pdf, 1.23 mb)

• CMIP's Report on Iran in the World Media (last updated: March 2008)
  This is a partial list of news articles and blogs, in several languages, that followed presentations of CMIP's report on Iranian schoolbooks in several major cities in Europe and in the US. The report was mentioned in a wide spectrum of news media worldwide.

• Special Interview with Dr. Arnon Groiss: "Iran Educates Children to 'Seek Martyrdom'"
  CBN News, December 19, 2007
  During Iran's war with Iraq in the 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini sent thousands of Iranian children directly into minefields. He promised that they'd see heaven as their reward. Today's Iranian leadership is quite unpopular with its growing younger generation -- the Mullahs are attempting to reclaim this group one textbook at at a time... (click here to see the video)

• "Jihadist indoctrination in the schools" (pdf 14 kb)
  Washington Times, by Nir Boms, December 17, 2007
  A new U.S. intelligence assessment suggests that Iran may have halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that its weapons program remains on hold. This revelation has created much consternation in Congress on both sides of the aisle...

• CMIP Presents its Report on Iran in Europe and in the USA - PowerPoint Presentation
  (pdf, 1.78 mb)
  Between November 14 and 20, 2007, Director of Research Dr. Arnon Groiss, and a member of the Executive Board, Nir Boms, presented the findings of CMIP's report on Iranian school textbooks in the US Congress and before several other bodies in Washington DC, New-York and Los-Angeles. Previously, between January 30 and February 8, 2007, CMIP's Chairman, Dr. Yohanan Manor and Dr. Arnon Groiss, presented the report in several major cities in Europe (click here to see pictures).

• "State Sponsored Child Abuse in Iran: Iran’s violations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child" (pdf, 155 kb)
  By Shayan Arya and Nir Boms - November 7, 2007
  As this paper shows, Iran is committing serious violations of the Convention on the Rights
  of the Child while cynically remaining a signatory. It has an intricate system of legislation
  that enables the government to veto its own constitution that secures children’s rights. It is
  endangering children by encouraging them to seek death and is instilling in them hatred
  toward different cultures and religions via its education curriculum.

• Policy Paper on the Report: "Iran's Global War Curriculum" (pdf, 323 kb)
  By Dr. Arnon Groiss, Geopolitical Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2007
      English (pdf, 323 kb)
      French (pdf, 2.49 mb)
      German (pdf, 2.48 mb)

• Testimony of an Iranian Woman: Ms. Ghazal Omid
  On February 8, 2007, Ms. Ghazal Omid--Human Rights, Women Rights and political activist, author of Living in Hell, and a Shi'a Islam scholar--presented her testimony at the British House of Commons, as an Iranian woman who had experienced the Iranian educational system.