Document Type : Research Paper
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Abstract
After the Islamic revolution and the rise of the system of the Islamic Republic
of Iran over the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, a new wave of ideas and
opinions entered Iran's foreign policy domain and the international relations
structure. The principles and concepts of this revolution and the newly emerged
political system are generally affected by Imam Khomeini's thought and action
as an ideologue and a leader. This article questions the semiotic structure and
articulatory system of Imam Khomeini’s foreign policy and about to give a
descriptive framework for analyzing it. According to the hypothesis, from the
writers' viewpoint, the articulating system of his foreign policy discourse is
describable in a three-dimensional framework of ideology, strategy and
diplomacy. Ideology beholds some principles and belief-related standards that
generally nurture from Islam's revolutionary-critical source. Strategy involves
the security-based calculations and the hardware policy. Moreover, diplomacy
includes the accepted diagrams of conversation and negotiation for achieving
national interests. The results of this discourse are represented in propositions
that are based on concepts of the revolutionary-critical, pragmatic-realist, and
prudent-modernist Islam.
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