Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education

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)

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 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)

IMPACT-SE'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 IMPACT-SE'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 IMPACT-SE: "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.

IMPACT-SE Presents its Report on Iran in Europe and in the USA
(PowerPoint Presentation, pdf, 1.78 mb)
Between November 14 and 20, 2007, IMPACT-SE and a member of the Executive Board, Nir Boms, presented the findings of IMPACT-SE'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, IMPACT-SE 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 IMPACT-SE 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.

IMPACT-SE Policy Paper on the Report: "Iran's Global War Curriculum" (pdf, 323 kb)
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.