Iran Migration Observatory is the first Iranian research institute in Migration data analysis. An institution was established in 2018 under the Sharif University Policy Research Institute to provide up-to-date and reliable data and analysis on various types of migration, collaborating with the Vice President for Science and Technology. Academic and student mobility working groups, Asylum and Forced Migration, Economic Migration, are observational research groups that operate under Dr Bahram Salavati, a senior researcher in migration.