The Foundation for Iranian Studies (FIS) is an American non-profit institution dedicated to educating the public about Persia and modern Iran.

The mission is to preserve, study, and transmit Persian/Iranian cultural heritage; to study contemporary issues within Iranian government and society; and to point to the probable social, economic, political, and military directions Iran may take in the 21st century.

In the early 1980s, the Foundation for Iranian Studies launched its Oral History Project to preserve the memories and information of pre-revolutionary Persian artists, politicians, diplomats, etc.

[6] The director of the foundation is Mahnaz Afkhami, who previously served as the Minister of Women's Affairs in Iran before the Iranian Revolution.

From 1982 until 2016, the Foundation for Iranian Studies published the Persian-language journal Iran Nameh, which was edited by Jalal Matini.