Vol. 4، No.14،Autumn2019

Editor's Note

Misguided Calculations and Negative Balance

Hossein Safdari

  Misguided Calculations and Negative Balance  Regardless of his official status، the US president، Donald Trump، proudly took the responsibility of the hideous crime of killing the brave Iranian commander، Haj Qasem Soleimani immediately after he was murdered and said that the killing was directly ordered by he himself. He claimed to have made this decision in order to stop a war. Mike Pompeo، the United States Secretary of States and one of the biggest promoters of democracy and human rights in...

Exclusive Interview with Ismail Haniyeh

Exclusive Interview with Ismail Haniyeh  Ismail Haniyeh، the political chief of Palestine's resistance movement، Hamas، was elected as the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority in 2006. He is one of the Palestinian politicians who is constantly at war against the Zionist Regime and has gone through much hardship in this way. He was frequently arrested by the Zionist Regime's security forces and incarcerated because of his anti-Zionist activities in Gaza. In 1992، he was sent to exile...

An Exclusive Interview with Temel Karamollaoğlu the Leader of Felicity Party

An Exclusive Interview with Temel Karamollaoğlu the Leader of Felicity Party  Temel Karamollaoglu was born in 1941 in Marash (Southeastern Turkey) and graduated in engineering from the University of Manchester in the UK. He is one of the Islamist political figures in Turkey with diverse experiences. He has been a member of the National Salvation Party، a several-time representative in the Turkish parliament، Turkey's representative in the Representatives Council of the European Parliament، the Mayor of...

The Attractive Qualities of the Martyr Major General Qasem Soleimani's Behavior

(As mentioned by Dr. Hossein Amir-Abdollahiyan)

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is the former Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs in Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is current Special Aide to the President of the Islamic Parliament of Iran in International Affairs. During the past two decades، he has been colleagues with the Commander Qasem Soleimani، especially as the Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs، and has a very accurate assessment of the this Qods Force Senior Commander's professional approaches،...

Martyr Senior Commander Qasem Soleimani's Commanding Features and Spirituality

(In an interview with the Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan)

Hossein Dehghan is a military officer with the rank of Brigadier General and one of the veteran paloticians of the country who have served the country in different posts including the Ministry of Defense and is now a consultant to the Commander in Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces. Because of his long friendship and colleagueship with martyr Haj Qasem Soleimani، he has a rich mastery over the full of ups and downs history of the Eight-Year War and all the accomplishments that martyr had after the war. He believes that...

An Action Research of the Iraqi Government and Political Regime's Threats

Amir-Hamed Azad
(Ph.D. in International Affairs)

In the new period Iraq entered after 2003، a lot of dysfunctions (the regime's failure because of the unhealthy political disputes and rivalries، extensive official and financial corruption، and a substantial growth in the shortages and problems) led to people distancing themselves from the political class and getting distrustful of the political parties; it all led to protests widening into some anarchist movements. The firs Shia protests against the regime go back to 2011 usually accompanied by anarchistic...

Examination of the relation between the national language and the soft power in the foreign policy of international players

Seyyed Mohammad-Javad Ghorbi
(A member of the faculty board of the Political Thought Group in the Islamic Revolution Document Center; ghorbi68@yahoo.com)

During the past few decades، mastery of the soft power is one the political players' concerns. One of the grounds to build the soft power on in the countries has always been promoting the national language in the regional or global geo-politic. In other words، promoting a national language in a specific region can easily lead to an ease in achieving the plans the country has specified. Today، we can clearly see the hegemony of the English language all over the world which is closely related to the Western...

US-Europe relations During Trump's Presidency

Dr. Alireza Koohkan
(Assistant Professor at Allameh Tabatabaee University; koohkan@atu.ac.ir)

Relations between the US and European countries has always been one of the most important pillars of the today's international system and Western hegemony over the global structures. The relations basically formed during the colonial times and since then the Western countries have tried to keep their problems among themselves and do not let them block their way of gaining interest from other regions. Trump's victory in 2016 elections and his different slogans from the one hand، and the problems of power...

US-Europe relations During Trump's Presidency

Dr. Alireza Koohkan
(Assistant Professor at Allameh Tabatabaee University; koohkan@atu.ac.ir)

Relations between the US and European countries has always been one of the most important pillars of the today's international system and Western hegemony over the global structures. The relations basically formed during the colonial times and since then the Western countries have tried to keep their problems among themselves and do not let them block their way of gaining interest from other regions. Trump's victory in 2016 elections and his different slogans from the one hand، and the problems of power...

The European Union's Security Strategy against WANA (Western Asian and North Africa)

Behzad Ahmadi (European affairs expert)

Maintaining the stability and economic interests of the European Union as one of the three main economic and geo-political powers of the international system in Western Asia and North Africa have been faced with domestic، foreign، short and long-term challenges. This paper has examined the European Union's strategies to overcome the mentioned challenges. The common denominator of all the European Union's strategies have been a pressure mixed with support from the Union for the Mediterranean، European-Arabic...