Center for Strategic Research (Persian: مرکز تحقیقات استراتژیک) is a leading Iranian think tank on strategy issues.

It is the research arm of the Expediency Discernment Council.

[1] Prof. Mohammad Reza Majidi is the head of center.

It publishes Foreign Relations Quarterly, Rahbord (Strategy) [3] in Persian and Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs in English.

[citation needed] The CSR has six affiliated departments: