At the heart of the concept crisis is the notion of endangered condition of an is­sue, number of issues, processes and affairs in the life of an individual, an group, a community, a locality or society as a whole. The sense of being in danger or threatened should be widespread and gradually a consensus concerning the criti­cal nature of the issue on hand should emerge. This paper based upon the present author’s Geo-strategic and geopolitical theory of the Iranian society has claimed that Iran for various reasons has been a crises prone society. Then by using an analytical model consisting of three levels of analysis, it is attempted to present a long list of crises which have shown sustainability in long history of Iran. Among the critical issues mentioned, authoritarian political sub-structure is singled out; Finally by reviewing major changes which have occurred in the past two decades the paper has tried to mention the most critical issues of today among which youth problems, addiction, legitimacy crisis, and housing problems are more empha­sized. As a conclusion the paper points to people’s possible reactions t crises em­phasizing urban riots and unrest