Political Sociology
Roya Dousti; Ali Salehi Farsani; Hossein Abolfazli Karizi
Abstract
The present article examines the role of the identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran in relations with the United States between 1979 and 2021. Accordingly, the main question is: What effect did the identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran have on relations with the United States of America between ...
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The present article examines the role of the identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran in relations with the United States between 1979 and 2021. Accordingly, the main question is: What effect did the identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran have on relations with the United States of America between 1979 and 2021? The temporary answer to the question of the present article, which has been done by descriptive-analytical method, is: The revolutionary-Islamic identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with its increasingly anti-unilateralist and domineering role, has been in opposition to the interests of the United States of America, which has led to the termination of relations between the two countries between 1979 and 2021. Iran-US relations include the institutionalized structure of conflict in the relations between two political units, which on the one hand is rooted in the nature and type of their political system, and on the other hand is rooted in internal, regional and international causes and factors. In fact, what prevented the establishment of normal relations between the parties is not at the level of discourse or behavior, but due to the confrontational identity of Iran and the United States.
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The strategic alliance between Iran and Syria is considered as one of the longstanding regional alliances. However a very important point in the strategic relationship between the two countries is the tendency of Iran toward deepening its strategic relationship with Syria from 2003 to 2011; which started ...
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The strategic alliance between Iran and Syria is considered as one of the longstanding regional alliances. However a very important point in the strategic relationship between the two countries is the tendency of Iran toward deepening its strategic relationship with Syria from 2003 to 2011; which started from U.S. invasion of Iraq until the outbreak of uprising in Syria in March 2011. This paper tries to answer this question: By comparison to 1979- 2003 period, why Iran was more determined to deepen its strategic ties to Syria from 2003 to 2011? Findings show that, systemic pressures including U.S unilateralism in the international system, occupation of Iraq by the U.S. in 2003 and Iran's nuclear issue have been essential variables in pushing Iran toward expansion of strategic ties with Syria from 2003 to 2011. However, these pressures and threats are interpreted through unit-level variables, especially the perceptions of elites from the international system in this period. The research methodology is descriptive-analytic based on qualitative method.
