Foreign policy strategy of Mohammed bin Salman and its security requirements for Iran

Subject Areas : International Relations

Omid Azizyan ¹ (Ph.D Student - UNiversity of Mazandaran)
Hossein Rafie ² (Department of Political Science Faculty of Law and Political Science University of Mazandaran Babolsar- Iran)
Ali Akbar Jafari ³ (Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Mazandaran,)

Received: 2021-08-08 Accepted : 2022-06-02 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: strategy, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Mohammad bin Salman, Security requirements,

Abstract :

After entering the power system in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, made great changes to the Saudi foreign policy strategy. By leaving the traditional strategy of defensive policy, he conducts an offensive strategy against Iran and the middle east and north Africa regions. Meanwhile, changing the coalition patterns in the region in the form of alliance with Israel, the NATO plan and trying to retain American military in the region has threatened national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, the present study aims to answer the question of what requirements the foreign policy strategy of Mohammad bin Salman in the region has created for the foreign policy and national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran? In this paper, "the security of the Copenhagen school" and "aggressive constructivism" have been used as a theoretical framework. Research methodology and data collecting are descriptive-analytical and library-documentary approaches. The findings indicate that the increasing closeness of Saudi to Israel, trying to create an Arab front along with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Riyadh 's attempt to move closer to the United States and bring this country to a wide contrast with Iran, has touched Iran 's national security at two levels of confrontation and detente.