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Document Type : Original Article
Author
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Guilan
Abstract
The African continent, with its geographical, economic, cultural and political characteristics, has become one of the most influential regions in the anti-arrogance and resistance-seeking discourse of the Iranian G.A. in the post-Cold War era and the prosperity of regionalism. The policies of the Iranian G.A. in Africa have a multi-layered structure with the aim of strengthening the country's geopolitical position and creating an institution that helps its foreign policy goals. Therefore, the strategic goal of these policies is to introduce Iran as a power beyond a regional force and to pressure regional and trans-regional rivals in other geographies in order to gain political and economic benefits, reduce the impact of sanctions, and by forming coalitions and creating a resistance discourse based on the Islamic Revolution, neutralize the political isolation strategy of the Hebrew-Arab axis designed against Iran. In this regard, the main question of the research is posed as follows: What is the main strategy of Iran's foreign policy towards the African continent? In response to this hypothesis, it is proposed that, given the importance of the developing world in Iran's macro strategies to criticize the current international order and promote the resistance discourse derived from the Islamic Revolution, the African continent is of great importance in terms of historical support and dissatisfaction with the current arrangements in Iran's geopolitical strategy, geoeconomy, and geoculture in the global south. We do this based on a descriptive-analytical approach using qualitative research methods that have been used to collect information from documentary-library sources and reliable cyberspace websites.
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