Third-world Oriented Policies of Ahmadi Nejad Government in South Caucasus

Mohammadtaghi Yousefi

doi:10.5539/jpl.v9n5p95

Abstract

The collapse of USSR and the independence of the remaining republics from it lead to special geo-politic and geo-strategic changes across the northern borders of Iran. The presence of the influence of regional and trans-regional players in Caucasus that first try to omit Iran or limit the role and presence of Iran in the region and second, have created new sources of threat for Iran in this region has affected the foreign policy of Iran to a significant extent. Given the fact that Caucasus can be the origin of various crises and events such as the separatism, nationalism, and ethnic tension that given the presence of powers such as America and Israel in this region and because of ethnic nexuses can endanger the national security of Iran and Iran needs to have control over the regional entrance gateways to preserve and provide national security and interaction with future challenges. One of the practical approaches in this respect is the fulfillment of the presence and influence of Iran in security issues located among these countries which can reduce the possibility of leaving negative influences of such crises on the national security of our country.

Highlights

After the collapse of USSR three republics were born in the Caucasus region and among them Iran shares common borders with two republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia
4) The rise of the role of energy equations and transport in Caucasus. These evolutions and the influential factors on one side leads to the divergence of the two republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia from Russia and the common wealth countries (SIC) and on the other hand it has facilitated the presence of other powers such as The United States of America and NATO in the region
Iran can consider the relation with turkey to direct the foreign policy in a form of in which the best policy to secure the national security and interest is approach

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Each of these republics has lots of common interests and relations, historical, political, and cultural commonalities with Iran and this issue leads to contradictions, struggles and at the same time good relations among these countries. Internal interests of these countries along with the interest of the powers to be present in the region and the changes because of the collapse of the USSR are among the influential factors of the Caucasus region. Some of the relationships between Iran and these countries found newer www.ccsenet.org/jpl

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