OIFI Databook

The Who's Who of Iranian Politics

An open, source-backed database of the people, organizations, and events that shape power in the Islamic Republic — and the relationships between them.

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Three ways into the network.

People

Politicians, clerics, commanders, and technocrats — placed on a factional spectrum from opposition to hardliner.

Organizations

State institutions, military branches, political parties, media outlets, and the parent–subsidiary ties between them.

Events

Elections, appointments, purges, protests, and leaks — the moments that move actors through the network.

What is the Databook?

The OIFI Databook is a structured reference for understanding who holds power in Iran, how they got there, and who they answer to. Every person, organization, and event is entered as its own record, with bilingual names (English and Persian) and cited sources.

Records are linked by typed relationships — appointed by, served in, subsidiary of, allied with, and more — each tagged with a confidence level so you can see the difference between confirmed ties and alleged ones.

The result is a navigable network: start from a name and trace the chain of influence outward, one or two or three degrees at a time.

A project of Open Information For Iran. Research tool — not a legal record.