Elements of Iran’s Regional Policy during Reconstruction Period with Emphasis on Friday Prayers Sermons

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Hossein Masoudnia ¹ , Davood Najafi ²

1 - ([e-mail]) . استاد یار و عضو هیأت علمی گروه علوم سیاسی دانشگاه اصفهان
2 - ([e-mail]) . کارشناس ارشد علوم سیاسی دانشگاه اصفهان

Received: 2010-04-02 Accepted : 2011-08-20 Published : 2011-06-01

Keywords: Iran, regional foreign policy, Friday prayers sermons, Hashemi Rafsanjani,

Abstract :

The reconstruction peroid is one of the important periods in the history of the Islamic Republlic of Iran. In this period، the framers of Iran’s foreing policy by adopting a pragmatice approach while adhering to revolutionary idealism had a constructive interaction with outside world. The adoption of this policy was for this reason that the public opinion which was under the influence of post-war conditions were not prepared to accept changes like the restoration of diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. Therefore، there was a need to prepare the public opinion to accept these changes. Taking into consideration the above circumstances، what were the foreign policy changes during the reconstructin period and how Hashemi Rafsanjani as the then president made use of Friday prayers sermons to prepare the public opinion to accept these changes. The present article by a descriptive analytical method wants to examine the above issue. The finding of the study shows that the foreign policy of Iran underwent a fundamental change and Hashemi Rafsanjani made use of the Friday prayer tribune to prepare the public opinion for the above changes