چکیده:
In the past two centuries, Iran as a buffer space, has played multi- functional roles in political and geopolitical arena due to power games of maritime and land empires of Britain and Russia in order to prevent the possibility of direct contact and conflict between rival powers. These functions have been performedsometimes by bilateral powers’agreements, sometimes by one of them and sometimes by Iran’s government andnation as a reaction against powers’ game. Although Iran has had a weak and neutral presence in these regional and global rivalries, it has had different important functions that can be presented as a model of functions and roles of buffer State. So, this research considers explaning the functions of Iran’s Buffer space with a descriptive- analytic methodology. Data gathering procedure is library and field finding. The research findings iluminate 22- functions in two general class of external functions and internal functions of Iran’s Buffer location.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"In the pasttwo centuries, Iran havebeen placed in the center of competition and hostility of two Great Powers (Russia& Britain) and bothof them havemade Iran’s people and State to be faced with difficult situations in order to defeat others and invademore territories.
Explaning Iran’s Buffer situation amongst great empires is itself a special pattern of Buffer spaces that we investigate in this research which has caused Iran to face political, geopolitics, security, territorial and military problems.
2- Function in external dimension 2-1- Govermental level 2-1-1- Continuous intervention in internal affairs of Buffer Space The role of Russians and Britains are visible in the advent and collapse of Iranian weak kings in 19th century,in the first experiences of parliamentary government, in political affairs and evolutions.
For this reason, one of the ways that Iran government used was following de-utilization policies to maintain buffer situation andagreement of two powers on recognizing Iran’sindependence, not as a political requirment and as a natural right of Iran’s nation, but as a geopolitical agreement to avoid military clashes between Britain and Russia.
Britain could adapt its policies with Mashrute movement to beatits rival basedon inner instabilities in Iran’s society and Iranian dissatisfaction with inner situationof country; freedomfighters accepted this tactical agreement to devastate power balance to the detriment of Ghajar government and to prevent the growing influence of Russia (Ali Soufi, 2006: 136)."