Geopolitical features of Iran and formulation of a national strategy with an emphasis on foreign policy

Subject Areas : Geography and tourism planning, geography and urban planning, urban planning, architecture, geography and rural planning, political geography

Heidar Lotfi ¹ , Somayeh Tarnas ² , Zeinalabedin Karami ³ , Maryam Arabgari ⁴

1 - Associate Prof. Dept. of political Geography & Tourism, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran
2 - Ph.D. student, Dept. of political Geography, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran
3 - Computer engineering & Financial System Planning, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran
4 - Ph.D. student, Dept. of political Geography, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran

Received: 2019-02-27 Accepted : 2019-02-27 Published : 2018-12-01

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Abstract :

Iran is in one of the most sensitive geopolitical situations in the world, so that the active geopolitical regions with its broad and diverse functions around it have become the focus of gravity of regional and international diplomacy. This situation is affecting Iran in the context of global and regional developments. The geopolitical position of countries over time and under the influence of various factors such as wars, revolutions, changes in the international system and the global system, and changes in the balance of power are constantly changing. Iran has been one of the countries in which its geopolitics has undergone many changes over the past four decades, whose causes can be found in a variety of internal and external geopolitical factors. This paper uses a descriptive-analytical research methodology and libraries to investigate the process of changes in the geopolitical situation in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution and the imposed war on how and why the process is deeply rooted. The reasoning behind the present article is that the process of Iranian geopolitical developments has been very rapid and in recent decades has been more influenced by the process of internal transformation of Iran's society and internal power potentials, and external and national factors have played a secondary role in this process

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