Abstract
In addition to internal conditions, surrounding environment of any country provide opportunities as well as limitations within the process of policy making particularly in terms of foreign policy. It seems axiomatic that overlooking the surrounding regions within the process of policy making can lead to irrecoverable damages on the country’s interests. In the present study it has been attempted to examine the features and abilities of surrounding regions of Iran as well as answering the question that which regions have advantage and priority to provide national goals and foreign policy of Iran has been presented at the conclusion of the hypothesis that Northern and Eastern regions surrounding the country (ECO zone) because of the presence cultural, language and religious similarities hold higher rate of capacity in order to provide foreign policy goals.
Highlights
In addition to internal conditions, surrounding environment of any country provide opportunities as well as limitations within the process of policy making in terms of foreign policy
Among them Iran compared with 200 countries or world political-geographic unit has relatively the highest diversity (Modishane chi 2002, 26) and the important issue in this respect is that the variety of tribe, language and religion are among the features of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan (Ahmadi poor et al, 29)
Persian Gulf has provided a superior position for Islamic Republic of Iran from economic perspective in terms of policy making but differences in terms of culture, religion and race and extreme dependence of the regional countries to the west on the one hand and the expansive propaganda by America concerning Iran-phobia and Islamic revolution to seclude Iran on the other hand has caused inapposite relation among them and always accompanies tension
Summary
In addition to internal conditions, surrounding environment of any country provide opportunities as well as limitations within the process of policy making in terms of foreign policy. Nowadays it has been substantiated to all states that if they are interested in developing the economy of the country they have to enter the regional arrangements in order to enter the world economy. In the present study it has been attempted to examine the features and abilities of surrounding regions of Iran as well as answering the question that which regions have advantage and priority to provide national goals and foreign policy of Iran? In the present study it has been attempted to examine the features and abilities of surrounding regions of Iran as well as answering the question that which regions have advantage and priority to provide national goals and foreign policy of Iran? In this respect in the following parts of the present study in order to do a more comprehensive study of the aforementioned areas the focus is on highlighting the positive and negative aspects of surrounding regions in relation with that of foreign policy of Iran
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