Geopolitics Quarterly

Geopolitics Quarterly

Back to Geopolitics: The Problem of Ignoring Iran's Geopolitics

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mojtaba Zarei 1
Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat 2
1 Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities Department of Political Sciences
2 Assistant Professor in Political Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Looking at the studies and analyses conducted in the field of Iran's issues with the world, we see the ignorance of Iran's geopolitical aspect. The concern of the present study is why Iran, despite its geopolitical importance, is always analyzed in terms of ideology and political Islam in the international arena? However, given the current geopolitical components and even its future geopolitical advantages, Iran has a potential and actual position and importance at the regional and international levels. The purpose of this study is, first, to highlight the more deliberate neglect of Iran's geopolitical aspect as an existing problem and to show some of its most important effects, and second, to highlight the geopolitical nature of Iran. The data collection method is descriptive-analytical, and they have been analyzed in the framework of the theory of "Geopolitics: The Impact of Politics on Geography" and the analytical framework of "Hermeneutics of Reflection". Based on the analysis of the effects of Iran's geopolitical neglect and with a look at the historical course (contemporary history), the research findings are a set of "historical" and "geopolitical" symbols and signs revealing the importance and determination of Iran's geopolitics, its precedence on political, ideological, cultural aspects, and the error of degradation in terms of geoculture. The result of this study is to ignore Iran's geopolitical aspect, reduce Iran's effective acting power in the international arena by introducing it more as an ideological actor, and put all the pressure on the Islamic Revolution, political Islam and the Islamic State.
Keywords
Geopolitics
Ideology
Iran
Islamic Revolution
Political Islam
International System

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Geopolitics Quarterly
Volume 19, Issue 2
Summer 2023
Pages 220-246

  • Receive Date 09 March 2022
  • Revise Date 28 May 2022
  • Accept Date 07 June 2022