The Survey of Strategic Components of Resistance in Supreme Leader’s Thoughts

Subject Areas : Political and International Researches Quarterly

Received: 2020-12-27 Accepted : 2020-12-27 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: strategy, Foreign policy, foreign relations, Resistance, Supreme Leader,

Abstract :

Sayd Abas Hasannia Moghadam[1] Mohammadreza Ghaedi[2] Mohammad Reza Dehshiri[3] Garine Keshishiyan Siraki[4]   Abstract: Each country has a strategy in its foreign policy. Each strategy gives a specific direction to the country's foreign relations. With the victory of the revolution, Iran selected non-alignment strategy in its own foreign policy which is an active strategy. By deepening this strategy, based on the opinion of the Supreme Leader, the Islamic republic of Iran has implemented the strategy of resistance in practice. Therefore, the main question of the article is "What are the strategic components of resistance based on the ideas of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution?" The hypothesis is: "The main components of resistance are the tendency to idealism while paying attention to the existing realities, paying attention to soft power while increasing the force of hard power, considering the existence of chaos in the international system, "creating a structural network of resistance by increasing regional agents, with the aim of countering the system of domination." The research method is analytical and its main purpose is to identify the components of the resistance strategy according to the idea of Supreme Leader in the field of foreign relations and study these components [1]- PhD Student, International Relations, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kish, Iran. [2]-Assistance professor shiraz branch,Islamic azad university,shiraz,iran:Corresponding Author. [3]- Associate professor in Political Science of School of International Relation of Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the Islamic Republic of Iran,Tehran,Iran. [4] - Assistant Professor Member of the Practical Board of the Department of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch