Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign policy in the wake of recent developments in the Resistance Front

Document Type : Science - Research (International Relation)

Author
mohammad hassan khani
Associate Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Islamic Studies and Political Sciences, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, I.R. Iran.
10.30497/pkn.2023.241126.2863
Abstract
The Resistance Front (Axis of resistance) is a rather new actor in international system. During the past two decades there have been numerous books and scholarly articles written about it reflecting a wide range of views and analyses about its goals and impacts on the West Asia, and also its members in general. This article is an attempt to investigate particularly the role of Islamic Republic of Iran in establishing and developing the Resistance Front focusing specially on the Iranian Foreign Policy in regional and global context as far as the Resistance Front is concerned. The paper is based on this assumption that the Resistance Front has arrived at an a new era after passing through almost two decades of critical challenges. The events in post-occupation Iraq, during the Saudi-led coalition war against Yemen, and also the events related to the fight against Deash and other terrorist groups in Syria together with the new role played by Lebanese
Hezbollah, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine in confrontation with Israeli occupation and aggressive policies are all signs of a new era in the life of Resistance Front. of paper argues that in this new era and according to new developments Iranian foreign policy faces some a number of tasks. In this context guiding the Resistance Front towards a formal and internationally and regionally acknowledged coalition is among the most important one. The paper also argues that Iranian Foreign Policy needs to make a practical balance between its support for the Front and advancing its relations with its neighbors and other internal and external actors in the Middle East based on the notion of common interests.
Keywords
Axis of Resistance
Constructivist theory
Foreign policy
I.R.Iran
Islamic world
Grounded theory method
Middle East
Realist theory
Resistance front
West Asia
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Journal of Political Knowledge
Volume 19, مقاومت
ESSAY
August 2023
Pages 73-88

  • Receive Date 08 June 2021
  • Revise Date 07 October 2022
  • Accept Date 11 June 2023