The United States is one of the factors whose role in the political outcomes of recent developments in the Arab world has been decisive. As Richard Walker, writer and analyst of the weekly magazine “American Free Press” points out, the...

Many scholars believe that the intellectual and ethnic movements of the Houthis are influenced by the Islamic Revolution of Iran in such a way that a prominent figure of those movements would address the issues such as renunciation of polytheism, al-Quds...

The Yemen crisis is not only emanating from the role of internal actors but also is because of engaging and intervening of the regional and extra-regional actors such as Saudi Arabia, the Cooperation Council, the United States and the Zionist regime...

In 2006, while George W. Bush’s government was under intense internal and external pressures to leave Iraq and was blamed for spending billions of dollars on Iraq and “handing Iraq to Iran on a silver platter,” the plan for the soft...

Considering the preliminary issues mentioned regarding the history of the contemporary Salafist movement, it can be said that the starting point of the world’s acquaintance with the Salafi stream in recent decades lies with the formation of a group...

A study of the presence of colonial powers in the Islamic countries, particularly during the past two centuries, would quite acknowledge that the colonial powers have always capitalized on the grounds and capacities inside the Muslim world in order to...

In June 2010, in a letter to the former European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the Secretary of Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Saeed Jalili, said that Iran is still ready to resume talks with the P5+1...

Even though the International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly declared that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful but the United States and its allies have always emphasized that Iran is not perusing a peaceful nuclear program. In the wake of the...

The common interests of the United States and its allies in opposing Iran’s nuclear program under the leadership of President Bush became one of the most controversial nuclear cases and draw the attention of the world’s public opinion....

Introduction Today’s international system as a whole has a distinct and independent existence and identity of its constituent units and creates particular behavioural constraints. As far as the foreign policy of the countries is concerned,...

From the United States perspective, Washington’s relationship with the United Kingdom is like a stool with three legs. The first leg represents the strong intelligence and military assets and capabilities that the United Kingdom has long brought to...

Representation of the United Kingdom’s Role in Maintaining ‎the Hegemonic System in the 21st Century Introduction Although during Queen Victoria, United Kingdom became known as the empire on which the sun never sets due to the extent of...

Iran is a constructive actor. The foundations of power and the geopolitical characteristics of Iran are such that they turn the country into being a balancing actor within the international system. The logic behind Iran possessing such a constructive...

The Formation of Mutual-Threat-Based Relationships   Since the emergence of the Islamic Revolution, the international system and especially the United States have been trying to threaten Iran in various ways in an attempt to prevent this...

According to the religious teachings, needs and necessities of life in today’s world, the Islamic state should have relations with other nations and countries in terms of political, cultural and economic aspects. For these relationships, Islam...

According to the religious teachings, needs and necessities of life in today’s world, the Islamic state should have relations with other nations and countries in terms of political, cultural and economic aspects. For these relationships, Islam...

The theory that each country adopts to confront the international system and also act within this system is of two types: independent and dependent. Independent in the sense that this theory emerged from a set of perceptions, thoughts and ideas of a...

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is a fluid and dynamic movement by which is distinguished from the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In other words, the Islamic Revolution is a general phenomenon within which the Islamic Republic of Iran is...

Television, newspapers and the means of communication play a key role in reaching out the society. A study of the common world of culture shows that what is seemed real, interesting, beautiful and moral before the members of the culture and the meanings...

Hegemonic system: The hegemonic system constitutes a set of actors in the international system who try to maintain the rules of an unjust and oppressive system. They use various military, economic, cultural and political tools to influence others (the...