The Role of the Identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Relations with the United States

Dousti, Roya; Salehi Farsani, Ali; Abolfazli Karizi, Hossein

doi:10.22054/qpss.2022.68407.3063

The Role of the Identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Relations with the United States

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Roya Dousti ¹

Ali Salehi Farsani ²

Hossein Abolfazli Karizi ²

¹ Ph.D, Graduated of International Relations, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² Associate Professor of International Relations, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/qpss.2022.68407.3063

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 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.

Keywords

Identity

Revolutionary - Islamic

Islamic Republic of Iran

America

Unilateralism

Hegemony

Subjects

Political Sociology

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