The academy, founded in 1935, was established by Mohammad Ali Foroughi and Ali Asghar Hekmat.
The founding members of the academy included notable literary figures and celebrated scholars such as: Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, Mahmoud Hessabi and Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh.
The academy's main activity is to create and approve official Persian equivalents for general or technical foreign terms. It also compiled an official orthography of the Persian language. The academy promotes research on Persian language and literature, other Iranian languages, Persian heritage, Iranian studies and Iranian culture.
Iranian law requires those equivalents to be used in all official communications by government bodies and state companies.
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