Tajikistan's EconomicInteractionswith Iran andFutureProspects ofBilateral RelationsinRecentDecades

Subject Areas : International Relations

Morteza Mahmoudi ¹

1 - Assistant Professor of Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch

Received: 2015-05-12 Accepted : 2015-05-12 Published : 2014-02-20

Keywords: Iran, Russia, Tajikistan, Economic Relations, Central Asia,

Abstract :

Tajikistan being among the emerging countries of Central Asia, is one of the most important countries that due to historical, cultural and linguistic similarities after independence has been taken into consideration by Iran. With The beginning of the bilateral relations, on one hand, Tajikistan has faced With civil war crises and economic and political problems and on the other hand,western media tried to make negative propaganda against Iran and Central Asian countries in general and particularly Tajikistan and also Russiaconcerned aboutIran's presencefearcan developed.However, by introducing a behavioral evolution and its cultural and political positioning –in addition to suggestion for creating peace and solution of Tajikistan’s civil war –Iran considered economic relations according to the capacities of that country as a priority; the action has led to the resultants such as removal of ambiguity in Iranian political behavior and neutralization of competitors ‘campaigns and modeling of religious state relationships with secular governments. The authorhas triedtoanalyzeeconomic interactions between two countries in this article.