ISLAMIC REVOLUTION STUDIES
Year:2015 | Volume:12 | Issue:41|Papers Count:11

Efforts made in the field of general diplomacy in the area of Persian Gulf have always faced challenges and barriers. The reasons lie behind the unrealistic depiction of Islamic Republic of Iran’s goals by mass media of supra-regional powers on the one hand and lack of dynamicity and ineffectiveness of Iran’s foreign policy in the field of general policy on the other hand. These shortcomings lead to distrust and increase tension and decrease good neighbor relations with regional countries. Studying general diplomacy in its conceptual and functional aspects, this research tries to analyze the role of opportunities and challenges in the field of Iran’s general diplomacy and study and analyze effective solutions to improve and strengthen relations of Islamic Republic of Iran with its southern neighbors.

Adopting descriptive analysis, this research has studied Zionist regime’s foreign policy regarding Islamic awakening uprisings. Foreign policy of regional countries have been with changes in nature, foundation, forms and tactics corresponding with span, speed and intensity of these developments. Zionist regime has made some changes in its foreign policy from the outset of these developments. This research tries to first explain whether changes in Tel Aviv’s security and foreign policy have been fundamental or with a merely tactical approach, second, what aspects of decision making levels of Tel Aviv’s foreign policy have been strengthened and what aspects have been weakened by developments of Islamic awakening. Current article has chosen “James Rosenau’s” fivelevel decision-making model and has tried to investigate Tel Aviv’s foreign policy from the outset of Islamic awakening (November 2010) up to the end of this regime’s thirty third government (April 2015).

As the largest area of religious minority in the country with high ethnic density and tribe-clan social structure, Sistan and Baluchestan province has always been an appropriate region for the formation of legitimizing violent discourses which are one of the greatest security challenges of the Islamic Republic of Iran within its territories. Applying Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of discourse analysis with a descriptive analysis approach, this article has studied legitimizing violent discourse of Jaish ul-‘Adl terrorist group in 1393 AH and through analyzing this group’s statements and using first hand sources, it has introduced symbolic legitimizing indexes of this group so that conditions for programming and policy making in terms of identity and discourse to suppress these legitimizing indexes as a step to consolidate revolution’s bases in this province. This article has used library data and statements of this terrorist group in 1393 AH.

In this article, “third wave of Islamic awakening” has been applied for a set of developments that started at the end of 2010 from North Africa and spread into other Arab countries. Islamic revolution [of Iran] is considered the second wave. The first wave of Islamic awakening is applied for a set of reactions that occurred in the second half of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Islamic world especially after industrial revolution against political-cultural attack of west. Occurrence of these waves as a “scientific issue” has led to this question: “what relation is there between three waves of Islamic awakening which have happened in a period of two centuries- and international domination system?” Although waves of awakening have occurred under different intellectual, political and social circumstances, the author’s hypothesis is that “three waves of Islamic awakening” is a reaction against “international domination system” and their internal agents within the span of Islamic world.

West’s failure in hard battle with Islamic revolution’s discourse caused this front to apply all its power in soft mode to deter Islamic revolution’s discourse from becoming hegemonic. Mass media especially Farsi satellite channels affiliated with west, are among the most important tools of west in this confrontation of discourses. This article tries to answer this important and fundamental question how Farsi opposition channels want to dislocate Islamic revolution’s discourse? To answer this question a central hypothesis is proposed that: Farsi opposition channels are about to destroy nodal point of Islamic revolution’s discourse i.e. Islam to dislocate Islamic revolution’s discourse.

This article mainly inquires into what reactions has US had toward Islamic awakening of people in Arab countries of Western Asia and North Africa. Our hypothesis is that public uprisings in Arab countries of western Asia and North Africa which toppled dictator regimes appointed by west, surprised the domination system especially the US. Today US, using different tools and mechanisms whether political, diplomatic or economic at different local, regional and supraregional levels, tries its best to ride on the waves and lead political developments in this region toward its strategic interests and neutralize Islamic awakening.

This article is aimed at providing fundamental concepts and principles of Islamic revolution’s architecture from the viewpoint of experts and theorists of revolution. This research is based on qualitative content analysis. Principles of Islamic revolution’s architecture have been extracted through an analysis of revolutionary slogans, speeches and ideals related to architecture. Application of these principles seems necessary for the continuation of Islamic revolution’s path and implementation of its ideals. The current article has managed to find characteristics and indexes of Islamic revolution of Iran’s architecture which are as follow: identity, simple beauty, the extent of globalization and orientation toward health. Each characteristic is divided into subcategories providing more details about the relation between revolution’s ideals and a desired architecture.

The main inquiry of this article is that how takfiri terrorist groups such as “ISIS” and “al-Nusra Front” provide security for Israel and act in its interests. Results of the current article indicate that actions of takfiri terrorists which are now considered as one of the most important factors of instability in the region are practically in line with Israel’s interests and provide its security. Takfiri terrorist groups such as “ISIS” and “al-Nusra Front” in Iraq and Syria act in such a way that implements Israel’s goals in the region i.e. security and strategic interests. Theses groups’ terrorist acts prepare the ground for the continuation of United States’ presence in the Middle East which means providing security for Israel, because since the formation of Israel up to now, it has been a permanent strategy of Israel to attract the support of great powers which will be facilitated by United States’ presence in the region. Second, actions of takfiri terrorists will make anti-Israel extremist countries take defensive guard and become busy fighting internal crises. Therefore, their capability in front of Israel will decrease which will change the equations of power to Israel’s interest.

This article’s main inquiry is to find what role Islamic Republic of Iran’s plays in creating unity and convergence among Muslims considering its characteristics and capacities (both material and non-material)? On this basis, the current research adopts a descriptive analysis to reidentify Islamic Republic of Iran’s characteristics, role and actions announced or unannounced, in creating unity and convergence among Muslims and where necessary, it will review a Muslim’s capacities that may prepare the ground for unity and convergence of Muslims as well as barriers of unity.

In the contemporary world, two fundamental attitudes exist about law: an attitude which is based on religious and divine culture and another attitude which is based on liberal democratic culture that keeps politics and religion separate. In religious culture, divine right is an inherent right and other rights emanate from divine right. Therefore, Allah SWT has laid down some rights and duties for humans so that humans follow them and achieve proximity with Allah SWT and real happiness, while in liberal democracy, because they have ignored God, legitimacy of any law depends on human will and desire and there is no authority to judge except human intellect.Therefore, the author has decided to evaluate and compare government’s rights toward people in two political systems, Islam and liberal democracy. The most important indexes discussed are as follow: legitimacy, supervision, political participation and political liability. Although two systems share some characteristics, there are serious and important differences which have been discussed in this article.