at least two perceptions exist among the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding these developments: first, the view held by the Supreme Leader that the Middle East developments are derived from the Islamic Revolution of Iran and are largely of a religious and Islamic nature, though they have been manifested through economic and social demands; second, the prevailing view held by the ...

Anachronistic governance or untimely governance has five key elements: backwardness of Arab governments compared with societies, unbalanced development, ignoring electronic politics, alienation of the educated and radical idealism. According to anachronistic governance, rulers of the countries in question launched big coalitions with the Western world in order to make up for the freedom deficit a...

The rapid pace of the Sino-Iranian cooperation during the recent years has drawn the attention of numerous academics and research centers all around the world. Seemingly, the Sino-Iranian relations emerged as an interesting subject of research for International Relations scholars in the early-1990s;

The present article looks into the similarities and differences between the Egyptian revolution of 25th of January 2011 and Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. This question may appear fitting to that of comparative politics and sociology of revolutions.

Iran’s position towards the Arab world revolutions is mainly affected by two variances; regional order and the balance of power in the Middle East.

Technological advances in recent years, has affected global interaction and today’s international arena is witnessing a revolution in communication with people all around the world.

Is it possible to recognize any subjective “common grounds” from which all Iranian elites with different political orientations would have approached the question of Palestine- Israel? So far most studies have been focused on differences among various approaches of Iranian intellectuals towards the establishment of Israel in the territory of Palestine and very few researches have been concentrated...

Iran and Russia have had good relations with each other during the past 20 years and political officials and analysts have refereed to the relationship between these two countries as “important cooperation” and “strategic one.” Nevertheless, relationship between Iran and Russia has been faced with serious problems since nearly one year ago. For instance, despite agreements signed between the two ...

What role does "regionalism" have in Iran's foreign policy strategy? Some prevailing views inside Iran assert that due to different power and political structures, as well as cultural and social differences between Iran and regional countries, especially the Arab Middle East, it is either very difficult or of little benefit for Iran to focus on regionalism as a foreign policy strategy. While acce...

Arab nationalism and Salafist Islamism, which promote transnational ideals, are declining on the horizon of new uprisings. Instead, a new Arab political identity with an anti-despotic, pluralist and democracy-seeking approach is expanding.