JOURNAL OF POLITICAL STUDIES
Year:2017 | Volume:9 | Issue:35 |Papers Count:9

It is considered that by regarding to the importance of notion of Islamic and republic in Imam Khomeini s political idea. What is of importance is finding out the ratio between these approaches and their spots in his ideas. There are some concern between wide range of scholars who searched in Imam Khomeini s idea scope and they study and interpret his idea s in both modern and tradition realm. We study on this issue that Imam Khomeini s idea is in which scope, traditional or modern and also that Islamic republic which has been originated from Imam Khomeini s thought is a traditional or modern phenomena by regarding of Imams ideas. There are different of interpretation and views which has studied and then the principles of ontology, epistemology and anthropology in both traditional and modern scope is studied.

Understanding the relational procedure between Iran and Saudi Arabia, as two great local powers, prior to and after 1978 Iranian revolution leads us to the point that factors such as competitive-friendly relations, Nixon's two-pillar model and competitive-enemy relation, has influenced the current relation. Classifying two countries’ relations prior to and after Iranian revolution, will reflect the impacts of Iranian revolution’ s teachings on relations between two states. However, analyzing post Iranian revolution relations directs us to the fact that while revolutionary sub-discourses came into effect in Iran, they troubled Iranian-Saudi relations. Yet the said challenges fall under their competitive-enemy half of relations. Besides the present paper has assumed the current discourses within Saudi Arabia as fixed and stable, however they are required to be further analyzed by the future researches. This paper benefits from two theoretical methods/approaches, which are appropriate enough to explain Shia Islamic Identitycaused by the Islamic Republic of Iran and other Iranian republic sub-discourses. This paper has much benefited from Constructivism theory and discourse method. Accordingly, through an analytical approach and using present concepts/assumptions of the constructivism theory and the discourse method, it analyzed the Iranian-Saudi relations.

The present study attempts to answer the question of what is the impact of inner variables on the issues, processes and strategies making the political structure of Iran's Eleventh Government in achieving “ The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA)? " This research is based on James N. Rosenau's hypothesis in foreign policy decision-making who believed that changing political behavior of the governments relies on the total of five variables: the decision maker characteristic, his part and position, government structure, inside the state variable and universal structure variable. The principle speculation of the research is that the Eleventh Government of Iran, under the influence of media and non-media general inner state variables within the systematic model, by changing the delegation and interactive attitudes, and structural shift from National Security Council to the Foreign Ministry, provided the factors for achieving the nuclear deal (JCPOA). In order to be reassured about the after effects of the research, a questionnaire including 14 questions was designed and distributed among some of the political, academic and media experts; these people had the most articles and positive or negative comments on nuclear talks. The experts of the nuclear issues express the effect of each component of the negotiators, institutional movement, interactive policy of the Eleventh Government, and domestic and foreign environments. The analysis and data survey questionnaires confirmed the hypothesis of the research.

The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the impact of social networks on political socialization of students of political science in Islamic Azad University, Tehran branches from 2005 to 2015. This article used a descriptive-survey research method and was conducted on the basis of theory of planned behavior (TPB). To this end, 280 participants were selected in accordance to the random sampling method. Findings of the study show that 93% of the students use social networks and spend a significant part of their study hours of a day in social networks such as Telegram, Instagram, Face book, Tweeter, and WhatsApp. Variables related to social networks have impact on the students’ political socialization and the degree of the effect of social networks has positive and significant effects on their motivation to participate in elections as one of the components of political socialization. Findings of the present study along with findings of other studies show the positive and significant effects of social networks on attitudes, values and norms, tendencies, and behaviors of students of political sciences, as the sample of the present study. As a result, the research hypothesis is confirmed.

Various components are involved in orienting people's electoral behavior. These components can be divided into political, economic, psychological, sociological, and religious elements. But the elements that influence the electoral behavior of any society, such as Iran's society, are different from other societies. It can be said that the element of religion plays a decisive role in the election of the Islamic Republic. In fact, the main objective of this research is to examine the place of religious components in the participation of the people in the seventh and ninth presidential elections. According to a Qazvin citizen survey based on the Qi-2 test, the result showed that, although in the seventh and ninth presidential elections different results emerged, the element of religion was central to the electoral behavior of the people. Of course, different aspects of religion were attended by people at every election period. As in the seventh presidential election, religious components such as Khatami's religious typology, religious society, etc., and in the ninth election, elements such as justice, simplicity and. . . were influential in the political behavior of the people. Therefore, it can be said that religion is the origin and source of politics in Iranian society.

At the beginning of the third century, culture is one of the core themes of vaarious studies in many areas of humanities including: sociology, ethnology, economics, science, and international relations. As a result of globalization, relations, political, economic, social, and cultural are intensifying around the world, and far-reaching societies are coming closer together. Hence, culture in many respects is the most direct, most obvious, and the most important of all, the element that is experienced in the daily life of human societies. This has led to the emergence of a link between culture and the various domains, including economic and political power, at the international level and placed at the center of attention of international policy scholars and international relations. Most of the resources in the field of international relations, from the main approaches to international relations, realism, idealism, neo-realism and neo-liberalism, have studied international developments from a security, political, and economic point of view; and issues have been evaluated less than cultural aspects. However, in order to better understand international affairs, cultural aspects should be taken into consideration. In many cases, the international dimension of the cultural dimension facilitates understanding and understanding of global affairs. Accordingly, the present research seeks to study and evaluate the main theories of international relations from a cultural point of view.

Process-oriented secularism and modernism in Iran and the West has double the idea of the intellectual default in Iranian society. Weak and inefficient groups and leftist and nationalist ideas of secularism and the Islamic Revolution of the 1320s and the occurance of the religious, traditional and secular forms the questions in this article. What wa the nature of the relation between the traditional and religious values whichled to the down fall of secular regime of Shah in 1979 revollution? What were the weaknesses of secular regime which contributed to the collaps of Shah's regime? Findings indicate that the forces of secular regime of Shah failed to communicate with grassroots as opposed to the clergy that had bases Mosques in every parts of the nation which made it possible to have grassroots communication.

In the present world, the role of media in directing the views, thoughts and public opinions is not unknown for anyone. Almost all the Middle-East citizens’ knowledge into the global events depends on the media they follow. And based on this knowledge, they analyze, interpret and react toward different events. With regard to the recent divisive events in Islamic countries especially Iraq, Egypt and Syria and the growth and development of extremist mainstreams and their abuse of the cyber space, this research focuses on studying the performance of Saudi-owned al-Arabiya News channel affiliated to Wahhabism radical mainstream. In the current descriptive-analytic research it is tried to answer the this question of how al-Arabiya News channel is the medium for religious division in the Middle East. The presented hypothesis emphasizes the fact that this Saudi-owned News channel prepares the ground for religious divisions in the area via foregrounding shiaphobia, Iranophobia (due to atomic activities in spite of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and also passing off the takfiris as real Islamic fighting forces, . The findings of this research show that the divisive actions by Wahabi-owned channel will lead to the weakening of Islamic unity and tarnishing of the merciful image of Islam.

Increasing the role of modern means of communicating in different parts of human life has led them to be used in various fields. The news media as one of the most important institutions of society, with its impact on opinions, opinions and other dimensions of human life, creates certain social and political realities for the people and determine our vision of the world. Today, the use of mass media is a prerequisite for achieving political development, since mass media have left a dramatic impact on the social, political, and cultural spheres of societies since its inception. The question which the present article uses in the descriptive-analytical method to respond to it is that what is the position of the political and broadcasting organization, especially in the post-Islamic society, in Iran? And was it really possible for this medium to succeed in the process of realizing and institutionalizing political development in the Islamic Republic? From the presented topics, it can be seen that The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting has provided a good place to revive the lost dimensions of political participation and democracy, although it has suffered in severity from time to time.