IntroductionChronic Unsustainability has plagued progress and development in Iran. This article seeks to illuminate aspects of this problem through a historical-theoretical approach. The central research question is: "Despite decades of efforts, initiatives, and programs, why has Iran's progress and development failed to achieve desirable outcomes? " The main hypothesis posits that: "The failure of development efforts in Iran stems from a complex interplay of long-term synchronous and asynchronous factors making unsustainable factors in both domestic and international environments. "Key internal factors include: Lack of consensus among strategic elitesCentralized management and policymakingWeak participatory processesKey external destabilizing factors involve: Conflict between domestic discourse and global development paradigmsPolicies of dominant international institutions (e. g., the World Bank, IMF)Adversarial stances of regional and international organizations toward Iran's political systemLiterature ReviewIssues of progress and development in Iran have often been framed within discourses of underdevelopment and backwardness. Previous studies on instability have highlighted factors such as: Divergent views on sustainable development and instability in industrialized nationsThe instrumental use of development discourse to obscure social, class, and political inequalities within industrialized countries and their exploitative relations with less industrialized nationsIran's adoption of global development models (particularly those of the World Bank and IMF), which prioritize economic aspects over social dimensionsA major shortcoming of these studies is their single-factor approach, overlooking systemic requirements for stabilizing development processes, implementing programs, and safeguarding achievements. Theoretical FrameworkThe study conceptualizes Unsustainability in progress and development across three dimensions: Process Unsustainability (affecting developmental stages)Outcome Unsustainability (affecting achieved results)Situation Unsustainability (affecting the overall developmental state)These can manifest in: Short-, medium-, or long-term durationsSemi-stable, fully Unsustainable, or fluctuating conditionsInitially, Unsustainability primarily concerns the development process. However, as outcomes emerge, Unsustainability shifts to preserving achievements, and as the environment evolves, Unsustainability in situation becomes prominent. Unsustainability operates in both domestic and international environments. While the causes of Unsustainability vary, its domains remain consistent: Resources (knowledge, capital, goods, services)Research & Development (innovation, technology application)Leadership & Management (strategic guidance from conception to sustainable development)The critical challenge lies in the simultaneous occurrence of Unsustainability across all three dimensions (process, outcome, situation) in both domestic and international contexts. This creates a complex, compounded Unsustainability with diverse manifestations, each requiring tailored mitigation strategies. Research Approach & MethodThe study employs " Phrontic planning resarch", a methodology that aligns theoretical constructs with empirical realities. Findings indicate that due to the interaction of internal and external making unsustainable factors, Iran's development and progress suffers from chronic, cyclical unsustainability across all dimensions (process, outcome, situation). In today's globalized context, overcoming this crisis requires: Sustainable consensus (for at least three decades) among strategic elites on core national values and macro-strategic issuesCoordinated, long-term efforts to define and realize an advanced society in alignment with Iran's global positioningFindingsIn the current era of globalization, the stability of progress and development is shaped by the entanglement of domestic and international factors. For Iran, key determinants include: Domestic Factors: Structure of policymaking and implementationParticipatory mechanismsDynamics among strategic elitesExternal Factors: Iran's regional and international standingAlignment with global development discourses and paradigmsEach factor exerts unique pressures, and their combined interaction generates the observed instability in Iran's developmental trajectory. ConclusionEnsuring sustained progress and safeguarding developmental achievements amid increasing domestic and international complexities remains Iran's fundamental challenge. Addressing this requires: Institutionalizing elite consensus on long-term strategic visionsAdaptive engagement with global systems while maintaining developmental sovereigntyThis study underscores that resolving Iran's chronic development unsustainability demands a dual focus on internal governance reforms and strategic international positioning. (Note: This translation maintains academic rigor while improving readability for an international audience. Adjustments can be made for specific journal requirements. )

1. INTRODUCTIONToday's world is facing various problems and unsustainability in different ecological, economical, and social domains. Decrease in natural sources, increase of pollution, fertile soil becoming salty, desertification, eradication of genetic variety, extreme poverty, and expansion of social-habitational inequality are among the above mentioned problems. Solving these unsustainability's requires the proper and effective solution of their bases and warding off the effective factors.

One of the fundamental consequences of instability on regional system of spatial is informal settlements and squatter community. The findings of recent studies on spatial structure of rural settlement in local and regional system reveal that instability in rural settlement on one hand, and the increasing and harsh development of urban spaces on the other hand have been exacerbated informal settlement and slum. In this article has been tried to examine the effects of instability in rural settlement on development of slum in Khorasan Razavi by descriptive –analytic study and using spatial analyses. In this research by determining a five kilometers distance around the urban spaces is tried to show the changes of spatial system of rural settlement. The settlement’s cluster pattern along with increasing population in a 30 years period tended to reinforce population movement from marginal areas to east north. The stability of spatial structures of rural settlement and so the arrangement of squatter community and informal settlement in Khorasan Razavi is based on functional role and promotional quality of rural settlement especially around the urban settlements. Otherwise we will see the small rural settlement around the urban settlement break up which its effects leads to regional instability.

The purpose of the present study was to understand the nature, type and contribution of the migration factors (repulsive, gravity, extraneous and personal) in migrating from village to the city and its impacts on the instability of Birjand city. The type of research was applied with descriptive-analytical nature, which was carried out by using surveying technique. The statistical population of the study consisted of all rural households living in Birjand, being determined by using the Cochran sample size formula, and 329 households were determined. The survey samples were selected by using random sampling method. SPSS and Excel software were applied to analyze the data. According to the results, the social implications of housing in the city showed that there were more negative social impacts for immigrants after migrating to the city. Among the impeding factors of rural migrants, socio-occupational parameters have had the greatest impact, after which economic, educational and research, cultural and religious, natural and political, factors were in the next category. Among the natural variables of "recent droughts", the most important factor was repulsion and among the economic factors "access to business and work" and "more income in the city" were the most imperative factors of attraction.

Problem statement: Media, one of the most powerful contemporary means of conveying and producing meaning, plays an irrefutable role in promoting the tourism industry. Over the last decade, the extensive representation of the “Journey to Hormoz” experience on social media, along with the extensive advertising of tourism media, has resulted in a media narrative that is not based on the reality of the context and has become an “overarching narrative.” The experience of recent years shows that this narrative, which has led to the reproduction of non-native media sub-cultures, has gradually transformed the meaning of Hormoz, which was a historical product of the interaction of the residents with their environment, and has caused the cultural narrative of Hormoz to become “dual.” On the other hand, sustainability, as a knowledge that seeks to preserve values by introducing the concept of “sustainable tourism,” evaluates the effects of the tourism industry.Research objective: This essay seeks to deal with media representation and environmental sustainability as contemporary and influential issues. Moreover, the existence of two conflicting cultural currents has led to cultural conflict. Research method: This research seeks to evaluate the effects of media representation of Hormoz Island from the perspective of sustainable tourism by employing a qualitative method based on literature and field observations. The assumption is that the prolongation of the existing conditions will encounter Hormoz with semantic conflict. Conclusion: The findings of this research indicate that the current media approach, which is based on tourism, can be evaluated as anti-sustainable. In other words, the duality in cultural space can make locals and tourists read Hormoz in two different ways, and two conflicting narratives of Hormoz can contribute to the formation of “two different places.” Also, based on the theory of “social construction of reality,” it can be predicted that due to the persuasive logic of non-native media, which is predominant, this reading can prevail over its conflicting narratives and become Hormoz’s dominant construction.

The first sportive national talent-identification model with the strategic approach in track and field was codified by the talent-identification committee in the athletics federation in 2006 and was executed in 2008.Therefore, the present research argues the barriers to success and sustainability of executing this scheme in Iran as well as studying the results of this national talent-identification scheme. The method in the present paper is of descriptive and traversal. The population of this investigation was consisted to be 52 people of the formulation and implementation Colleagues in national athletics talent-identification model. The population was sampled equally. After setting the questionnaire, the research tools were distributed amongst 10 sportive experts and thinkers, which all in all were revised and confirmed the reliability of this questionnaire has been obtained 0.81 through cronbach’s alpha test. For data analysis KS, one sample t-test and the Friedman test were used. SPSS software was applied for statistical analysis. The results showed; identified 3 barriers in the structural barriers stage, such as; federation managers’ lack of belief in the process of talent-identification, 3 barrier developing plan stage, such as; their little attention to the functionality of the scheme and 5 barriers in implementation stage, such as; lack of skilled human resources at the level of a≥0.05. The results had shown that based on the priority order, the barrier of low management stability in the athletics federation in the structural section, little interaction with the institutional sport in the implementation section, and large expansion of the scheme in the codification section had the highest priority on the failure and unsustainability of executing Iran’s national talentidentification scheme.

The recent socio-economic changing processes, besides changing patterns of migration have led to sustainable/unsustainable processes and physical-spatial transformation of rural settlements. In this regard, rural-urban migration and leaving some buildings in the countryside led to functional changes in using the spaces within some rural dwellings. This article tries to examine the different dimensions of these changes, and moreover, how rural unsustainability leads to some different land-use and thus, accelerates the undurable situation of the whole settlement.

Earthquake and its related phenomenon are often considered as the causes of instability and disorder in engineering and architecture, and have resulted in the destruction of many buildings and urban fabric. Despite this, by changing our attitude to earthquake: by redefining it from problem to potential and from chaos to complex organization, a different layer of this phenomenon can become evident. Earthquake and fault lines can be considered as an organizing factor, which play an important but hidden role in the geography of habitation, e. g. settlement location, urban spatial network, urban development and spatial-structural network of buildings. This article adopts a holistic approach and quantitative-qualitative methodology to identify the role of self-awareness and mental imaging in the complex system of earthquake-qanat-city and its effects on urbanism and architecture in different scales, which has resulted in an earthquake compatible architecture in different periods in the history of Iran and in some contemporary examples too.

What is called the problems of Tehran metropolis now a days, is deep- rooted in the policies of urban planning in our country. Since not far past up to now, immigration from all over the country to Tehran, irregular growth of urban population, inconsistency with urban infrastructure development, environmental pollution and low quality of living areas, erosion of self -growing fabric in most areas which get erosion very quickly due to not being benefited from minimum constructional standards, service and urban infected organ are all those problems that a city such as Tehran is confronted with. These cases caused that the greatest growth center of the country loses its capability of attracting the possibilities and parameters needed for efficient development and due to heavy pressure imposed by other towns and villages, this city is now suffering from serious problems which only by allocating extra budgets and additional funds, may be temporarily decreased. The topics which will be discussed in this article are those problems arisen from immediate neighborhood of two heterogeneous fabrics which have not been properly paid attentions to. So it has been tried in this article to address the heterogeneity in Tehran, caused by economic and social problems. In this article different aspects of the issue from urbanization viewpoint with analytical approaches and the existed challenges have been addressed.