The Position of National Identity in the Approvals of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution (Study Case: 2011 to 2021 Approvals)

The Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution (SCCR) is one of the decision-making institutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran and many major decisions in the cultural field in Iran are influenced by  SCCR. National identity also appears as a cultural and discursive category in the decisions of the SCCR. Considering the importance of national identity, it is necessary to examine the level of attention of the SCCR to this category. Therefore, this article means to examine the approvals of the SCCR from 2011 to 2021 from the scope of national identity. In this research, national identity is divided into seven social, cultural, historical, political, territorial, religious, literary, and linguistic dimensions, and the mentioned dimensions are tracked in the approvals. To achieve the goal of the research, the operational pattern method of discourse analysis has been used. The analysis of the approvals of the SCCR from the perspective of national identity shows that maintaining national solidarity and cohesion, the rule of Quranic teachings, the spread of the Persian language, the revival of historical memory, the preservation of Islamic Iranian culture, the development of political insight and the attraction of elites under the main axis of Islamic civilization shaped to Iranians national identity. Also, the level of attention paid by the SCCR to all dimensions of national identity has not been the same, and the territorial dimension is the least, and the cultural, literary and religious dimensions have been more important than other dimensions, and the political, social and historical dimensions are in the middle of this vector.