"Sovereignty Gap" in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its reflection in its regional policies

Subject Areas : Political Developments in Iran

Ashraf Kargar Ghomiha ¹ , Mohammad Rahim Eyvazi ² , Majid Tavassoli Roknabadi ³ , Ali Ashraf Nazari ⁴

1 - Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Islamic Azad University,, Sciences and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Political Science, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Islamic Azad University Sciences and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate Professor. Department of Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-12-11 Accepted : 2023-02-22 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: Sovereignty gap, Regional Politics, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic World,

Abstract :

The governance gap is one of the most important political damages that can occur in a political system. These gaps arise due to the lack of a general agreement on the sources of power and how to distribute it, and arise from the inability of the political elites to provide a correct understanding of these issues. Therefore, when a military is faced with this injury, it suffers major problems in various fields, both domestic and foreign. In the Islamic Republic, in spite of the over-discourse of the Islamic Revolution for relatively long years, there has been no consensus among the political elites in various fields or it has been very weak, and this has led to the creation of various sub-discourses. These sub-discourses in conflict with each other have blocked the way to the correct policy making and have caused confusion in domestic and foreign policies. The present article, with the discourse method, while referring to these sub-discourses, seeks to understand the results of this governance gap in Iran's policies in the region and the Islamic world with the hypothesis that: "The governance gap in the Islamic Republic of Iran causes a decrease in the influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the region and This issue weakens the position of aligned Islamic countries and strengthens competitors."