The Impact of Identity Confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia on Regional Security Policies of the Two Countries (Case Study of Yemen)

Subject Areas : Middel East

Saeed totonchi ¹ ([e-mail] student of international relations of Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan branch)
Majid golparvar ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Baft Branch)
ALi bagherizadeh ³ (Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan Branch)

Received: 2023-05-28 Accepted : 2023-08-14 Published : 2023-04-21

Keywords: Islamic Republic of Iran, Foreign policy, Ideology, Saudi Arabia, ideological confrontation,

Abstract :

One of the most important of them has been formed in Yemen. This research tries to answer the question of the identity-seeking confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia on the transformation of the regional security policies of the two countries by applying the constructivist theoretical framework and using the descriptive-analytical method. And what consequences has it had in the developments in Yemen? The hypothesis of the research shows that the regional security policies of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, affected by the identity-seeking confrontation of the two countries, have moved in the opposite direction during the past decade and have caused and intensified conflicts in the region. Clearly, the identity conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia has led to the intervention and conflict of the two countries in Yemen, so that after nearly a decade since the beginning of the crisis in this country, there is no clear prospect for its solution and management. to be The expansion of Shiism in the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Wahhabism of Saudi Arabia, a different view of the West, and the confrontation and proxy wars in some countries in the region such as Syria and Yemen are among the most important effects of the identity-seeking confrontation of the two countries on politics. The regional issues of the two countries - religious politics, looking towards the West and proxy conflicts in the region - have been.