Understanding the roots of Iranian foreign policy in the new Iraq

Middle East Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 49-57

  Barzegar, Kayhan ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

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EID: 24944477760     PISSN: 10611924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-1924.2005.00200.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. For further information, see Asaddollah Alam, The Diaries of Alam (Maziyar Publication, 2003).
2. This view has been expressed by President George W. Bush at the National Endowment for Democracy, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/release/2002/11/ 20021106-2.html.
3. Kayhan Barzegar, "The New Iraqi Challenge to Iran," Heartland, The Iranian Hub, No. 10, 2004, p. 81.
4. Gareth R.V. Stansfield, Iraqi Kurdistan, Political Development and Emergent Democracy (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), pp. 28, 83.
5. For further information about the impact of the continuation of the Kurds' autonomy on Iran's national interests, see Barzegar, op.cit., pp. 86-87.
6. Also, for a general view on Iraq's possible fragmentation and its regional impacts, see "Iraq in Transition: Vortex or Catalyst?" Chatham House, Middle East Programme, September 2004.
7. For further information about Iran's cultural-political influence among the Iraqi Shiites, see Phebe Marr, "Iraq: Balancing Foreign and Domestic Realities," Diplomacy in the Middle East, ed. L. Carl Brow (I.B.Tauris, 2004), p. 183.
8. Barzegar, op.cit., p. 81.
9. Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour, The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Some Conceptual and Practical Dimensions (Tehran: The Institute for Political and International Studies, 2002), pp. 143, 158-159.
10. Remarks by President Bush at the Twentieth Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy, November 10, 2003;
11. and Thomas L. Friedman, "Buy One, Get One Free," The New York Times, June 22, 2003.
12. Since the early 1990s, the Islamic Republic has pursued a new kind of pragmatism in the shape of détente and confidence-building policies, especially in the Persian Gulf region, focusing on improving relations with Saudi Arabia. For further information, see Kayhan Barzegar, "Détente in Khatami's Foreign Policy and Its Impact on Improvement of Iran-Saudi Relations," Discourse: An Iranian Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2000, pp. 165-174.
13. Also, for a general view on the place of ideology and pragmatism in the Islamic Republic's foreign policy, see R.K. Ramazani, "Ideology and Pragmatism in Iran's Foreign Policy," The Middle East Journal, Vol. 58, No. 4, Autumn 2004, pp. 555-559.
14. Anoushiravan Ehteshami, "Iran-Iraq Relations after Saddam," The Washington Quarterly, Autumn 2003, p. 124.
15. For further information about the Iranian foreign policy decision-making process, see Abbas Maleki, "The Iranian Foreign Policy Decision Making," Heartland, The Iranian Hub, No. 10, 2004, pp. 16-23.
16. Also see Mehdi Moslem, Factional Politics in Post Khomeini Iran (Syracuse University Press, 2002), pp. 176-179.
17. IRNA, April 6, 2003.
18. Javad Vaeidi, "Exemplary War," The Diplomatic Hamshahri (Farsi daily), No. 2, December 2003.
19. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi has on several occassions stressed this policy. See, for example, http://www.mfa.gov.ir/output/english/ documents/fpdoc1.htm, April 30, 2005.