Shamshir Rural District (Persian: دهستان شمشير) is in the Central District of Paveh County, Kermanshah province, Iran.

[4] The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Churizhi,[5] now a neighborhood in the city of Paveh.

[2] At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 8,680 in 2,138 households.

[8] The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 10,234 in 3,044 households.

The most populous of its eight villages was Durisan (now a neighborhood in the city of Paveh),[6] Iran portal