| Summary: | The authors of this paper try to explore the black box in the contemporary
domestic issues, the nature of the state, the identity and the impact of these
issues on the foreign policy approaches. Based on an appropriate theoretical
framework, using the principles of constructivism school with emphasis on
environmental factors and cultural resources, values and norms, the authors
explain how to plan the formation of identity in contemporary Iran’s foreign
policy.
The central idea of the paper is that Iran's foreign policy orientation has
profoundly influenced by the identity of the approaches, however, the weakness
or absence of civil society makes the government’s define identity through the
political elite rather than logical interaction with the nation. Such a process has
severe effects on Iran's foreign policy and caused losing national interests in
some cases
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