فصلنامه رهیافت انقلاب اسلامی
پیاپی 38 (بهار 1396)

This paper seeks to explain the nature, reason and quality of development in the political culture as a discourse on the basis of the case study of Iran's political culture. By shedding light on the discourse-based nature of the political culture, the possibility of development from one political culture to another political culture, its internal development, and emergence of political subcultures are explained. It is claimed and argued that the political culture as a discourse can change and develop in two forms: development “from” and development “in.” This process will be only made possible and justified if the political culture is construed as a discourse, and cannot be explained through conventional theoretical approaches. The discussion of this claim is done in three parts. In the first part, the theory of discourse analysis is explained as the theoretical framework. Then the quality and nature of the political culture as a discourse are explained. Finally, the reason and quality of development “from” and development “in” are analyzed in Iran's political culture on the basis of political subcultures that have arisen from secondary discourses of the Islamic Revolution.

The role of intellectual factors and power software in the victory of this revolution is so leading. This revolution was achieved at the victory by minimum elements of violence, without protectionist role of two superpowers and relaying on its cultural-identity sources. Along the victory of Islamic revolution and forming the Islamic Republic system, the model of religious democracy was introduced as cultural identity of this system. A model which both two global dominant discourses of that period, Western liberalism and East socialism, devoid of religious teaching were brought to the challenge. Already the serious rival against the democratic –liberalism is the west. The main question of this article is that what do the factors affect on the life continuity and the stability of the security-strategic bases of Islamic republic of Iran? In answering to this question, the hypothesis of the article is based on " the cultural identity if Islamic Republic of Iran" as the most important official of realistic- pragmatic in Islamic republic of Iran" that has been the main factor of stability and continuity of this system in international field where this individual identity based on cultural- moral values provides the emission of Islamic Republic goals across the national borders as possible. The base of this cultural identity have been caused to increase the national security and continue the sovereignty of Islamic Republic of Iran resulted from different sources and overlap as Islam religious, teachings based on Quran i.e. Norm-oriented basis and consolidated soft power, that its brightness in Imam Khomeini's votes and Ayat –Allah Khameni's talks is appeared. This article based on leading thinker's theory of Frankfurt school, especially the readings of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer is tried to prove its hypothesis.

After the Islamic Revolution, one of the most unique opportunity of periods of Iranian history, especially in the realm of political freedom and social. Political parties with different ideological approaches took advantage of this historic opportunity. Mko was one of those groups that quickly became the largest leftist political organization in the country and use of all available means, including utilizing the capacities of all parts of the country for power. Mashhad due to its special characteristics in terms of significance after Tehran was one of the centers. Life is organized in Mashhad because of extreme authoritarianism, centralization was in complete dependence and their efforts in recruiting, organizational chart and activities mainly in the central box was designed patterns. However, the opposition mko of components affecting the behavior in Mashhad that were causing changes in the shape and organization measures results. This article seeks to rely on documents and press reviews the ups and downs of Mashhad branch in the years 1357 to 1360.

This paper examines the Look East approach in foreign policy of Islamic Republic of Iran and the fragility of the cooperation in the framework of Neorealism. The method in this paper is descriptive - Analytical and data collected for Library from various sources and then analysis based on the theory of research. Look East policy Fans say Orientation to the East Asian powerful nations and alliances with them can meet Iran's national interests and resolve strategic ally for Iran's lack. In this regard, often to Russia and China, which over the years have shown that wish to expand its relations with Iran. This trend is consistent with the assumption of Neorealism that when the structure of international goes toward hegemony, Governments that are subject to security policies of hegemony are close together. At the same time, Neorealism is pessimistic to cooperation in the anarchic arena. They believe that the cooperation not feasible just in socio-economic and politically low levels and not to the level of survival. In addition, in the anarchic international system, states are concerned about Absolute gains of cooperation. Accordingly, China, Russia and India cannot be standing a nuclear state with regional ambitions on your side.

Historical facts show that national identity is a constant process and should be noted here that when a nation is formed, it does not continue by itself and the notion that it does not require any effort is wrong. The discourse of a country's products can be effective nation-building process. Therefore, to understand the national identity in the era of the Pahlavi and the Islamic Republic, two men were selected from a political intellectual discourse to examine the evolution of national identity in Islamism. In other words, this study selected as the current effective Islamism in contemporary Iranian history with the help of the national identity Laclau and Mouffe's discourse analysis.this research to achieve more consistent results in the extraction of the intellectual and political discourse of national identity of each factor should be taken Finally, the comparative method, we present a model to analyze the evolution of Islamism's national identity.

The decision making is the first and most central duty of every government to manage different aspects of each country. Although the government before acting on any field must focus on the issue of decision-making. But foreign policy with regard to the consequences and effects the behavior of governments in this field, more than other field need attention to decisions making that this should be done according to accepted pattern. Foreign policy decisions should be based on a pattern which considering the resources of decision-makers, and it must be able to help brokers foreign policy by taking advantage of the most favorable method to reach their goals. Therefore, the main question is formed what pattern can be be explained for the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran through Ayatollah Khamenei’s thoughts? In this article we will try to by using exploratory method and by analytical approach based on data and using thematic analysis technique, examine Ayatollah Khamenei’s thoughts and finally explain and named that : wisdom decision making. This pattern is among the combination patterns which is explained within the framework of two pattern; rational multi-layered patterns and value thinking. The government official based on the wisdom pattern, Is human obligated, Has authority and confrontation with divine guidance that the logic of his action is to perform a divine task based on wise rationality.Since the cognitive system of Ayatollah Khamenei is based on the divine worldview, islam is the main source of decision making. Also, the Quran, Imam Khomeini's thoughts, the foundations of the Islamic Revolution and the constitution are among sub sources of decisions.

This paper presents a comparative study of the role of the social communications in the Iranian and Egypt revolution. In both revolutions that happened as a result of dictatorship and the closing of political space role of the communications media was prominent. The research method in this study is description -analytical, so that resources through library are collected and analyzed. The results show that in the Islamic Revolution of Iran, from traditional media was used to communicate and protests against the Shah's regime. In contrast, Egypt's 2011 revolution, globalization and developments in space communications media have been conducted. Thus, social media such as Facebook and Twitter have played a bigger role. This media using the features of anonymity and decentralization of government create links that was lead to diffusion, social mobilization, political organization and social cohesion. However, due to the lack of development of the communications media in the era of the Iranian revolution, the role have played by mosques and Pulpits, street notices, writing slogans.