Religious Obligations and Intellectual Deliberations in Foreign Policy Making: The Case of Political Economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Foreign policy making should possess proper rationality and intellectualism needed for the foreign relations in the world today because foreign policy making is an important branch of the general policy making for the related decision makers. The importance of decision-making in foreign policy and the role of rationality in decision making are closely related to the principle of proportionality between purposes and the related methods in this respect. Proportionment as one of the conditions for achieving rationality، leads the political elite to choose the best relational choices for the Islamic Republic of Iran in its attempt to make relations with other countries in the world on the basis of the capacities of the Islamic Republic of Iran.