Globalization and its Impact on Modern Identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Globalization as a phenomenon resulted from the universality of modernity has influ-enced various dimensions of the Islamic Republic of Iran's identity in the economic, po-litical, cultural and social spheres. One of the identity dimensions of the Islamic Repub-lic of Iran affected by globalization is the political identity with national, revolutionary, Islamic and modern dimensions. The main question of the research is that why globali-zation has had the greatest impact on modern identity in Iran given the increasing spread of globalization in contemporary period. Our hypothesis is that the Iranian society has evolved into modern identity and values such as democracy, freedom of expression, and civil society for a variety of reasons, including demographic change and the emergence of the middle class, and new demands since the mid-1990s, as well as Iranian society approach towards it as part of its political identity. The overall result of the Research which is carried out via documentary and surveying method and focusing on case study (students of the Departments of Humanities and Technical & Engineering of Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch) indicates that most of these student’s view modern identity as part of their political identity.