Saeid Zibakalam

Saeid Zibakalam is an Iranian academic and conservative political activist. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Leeds (1990), where his dissertation focused on the social epistemology of the Edinburgh School. He is a faculty member at the University of Tehran, specialising in philosophy of science and political philosophy.

Zibakalam is a staunch supporter of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and has publicly criticised Hassan Rouhani and the JCPOA nuclear deal. In 2014, he was summoned to court for criticising nuclear negotiators. He attempted to run in the 2020 legislative election but was disqualified by the Guardian Council.

He received Iran's Book of the Year Award in 2007 for his work Social Epistemology. His brother Sadegh Zibakalam is a prominent reformist commentator.