therolee of the foreeign policy discourse of the islamic revolution in the rreestablishment of relations beetween iran and saudi arabia

Subject Areas : Political philosophy of the Islamic Revolution

amirhossin mirahmadi ¹ (Student)
Akbar Ashrafi ² (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Abolhassan shirazi ³ (international rlations-centeeral tehran- thran)
reza jalali ⁴ (international relations-centeral teehran- tehran)

Received: 2023-12-01 Accepted : 2023-12-29 Published : 2023-12-22

Keywords: Axis of Resistance, Foreign policy of the Islamic Revolution, relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, looking to the East,

Abstract :

​The Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia, as two main and effective regional players, have played and will continue to play an influential role in the relations and geopolitical developments of the Persian Gulf. In the last decade and due to many political developments, the relations between these two actors faced serious challenges and the tensions between them have played a destructive role in the region.The foreign policy discourse of the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite elements such as: culture of resistance, rejection of dominance, religious democracy and the spirit of martyrdom in its discourse, succeeded in bringing Saudi Arabia to the negotiating table and after nearly seven years of breaking relations and The pervasive and escalating tension will re-establish relations between the two regional powers.Using the method of discourse analysis and extraction of existing elements, in the foreign policy discourse of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the role of the aforementioned discourse in re-establishing the relationship between the two countries is investigated.