Evaluation of the Policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Perspective of National Security towards Kurdish Groups (2009-2022)
Subject Areas :Aram Marivani 1 , Abdol Rahman Hassanifar 2 * , Faramarz Mirzazadeh 3
1 - Department of Political Science, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor of Political History, IHCS, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Political Science, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Kurdish Clique, Foreign Relations, Islamic Republic of Iran, National Security,
Abstract :
Money is vital for all terrorist organizations. For some organizations, it is a tool to achieve their goals; for others, it is the objective itself. Terrorists participate in organized crime activi-ties at various levels. Organized crime expert Tamara Makarenko describes the nexus between organized crime clique and terrorist clique. This study expanded her continuum into under-standing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its evolution through the organization’s financial sources The Kurdish clique has caused ups and downs in Iran-Turkey relations. The strategy of America and Israel is to exploit ethnic and religious divisions to launch proxy wars in the Middle East and strengthen the permanent presence of their military and intelligence forces in the western borders of Iran. The policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the point of view of national security towards the Kurdish clique in the period 1388-1401 are largely influenced by regional and extra-regional variables in the field of strengthening Kurd-ish separatist clique with the aim of balancing forces and creating obstacles against regional influence. It has been Iran. It can be said that the policy of the Islamic Republic in the form of the governments established in 1388-1401 (especially 1392-1400) was based on the importance of involving ethnic minorities in political power and the foundations of political, economic and cultural development. and provided social.
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