چکیده:
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran led to serious differences and disputes between the new revolutionary government on the one hand and major world powers as well as countries in the region on the other. Many analysts have, attributed this to the idealism of Iran’s revolutionary leaders and their attempts to export the revolution. Often in these works, without paying attention to the events of the years after the revolution, the roots of this aggressive foreign policy are sought in the thoughts and actions of the new revolutionary leaders. This paper, while criticizing this approach, will seek to confirm the hypothesis that the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran was molded principally by actions and reactions that took place between 1980 and 1983 between Iran and the aforementioned nations. In other words, the new foreign policy was not created to be inherently aggressive, but a series of interactive communications, in the outlined time period, have influenced the contours of this new identity.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Formative Process of Post- Revolutionary Iranian Foreign Policy: 1979-1982 Mahmood Shoor Abstract The Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran led to serious differences and disputes between the new revolutionary government on the one hand and major world powers as well as countries in the region on the other.
Some analysts hold that the reasons for these tensions – and in a way, the development of a confrontational foreign policy in Iran – are above all the combativeness of political Islam (Cottam, 2001: 197- 235) and the efforts of the new Islamic government to export its revolution to other countries in the region (Rajaei, 2004: 87-92).
In this article, we posit that the body of the new Iranian foreign policy is not wholly derived from the idealism of revolutionary leaders, but rather from the reality of international events, especially in the years following the revolution, and in reaction to outside surroundings.
The position of this article is that at least prior to the liberation of Khoramshahr in 1983 during the Iran-Iraq war, Iran’s new foreign policy took shape in a continuous process of action and reaction and, despite Iranian leaders viewing the international order negatively as a result of ideology, revolutionary mindsets, and the perception of it as oppressive and based on colonial relationship, it was molded by the events and the circumstances in the region and the world.