Testability of the theory of constructivism in the investigation of the foreign policy of Iran Islamic republic in the ninth and tenth governments. (2004-2011)

Foreign policy has an especial place for the different countries, and following it, investigation and study of the different dimensions of the foreign policy are very important both for the politicians and the intellectuals of this field. One of the most important ways of the investigation of the foreign policy of the countries is the application of the different theories because of the different frameworks and principles that these theories offer. The different principles of these theories have led to the different results that obtained from them. Also, so far, various theories have been applied for the clarification of the nature, process and execution of the foreign policy of Iran Islamic Republic. But these theories couldn’t analyze really the nature and the process of the decision- making and or execute the foreign policy of Iran Islamic Republic, because of the domination of the materialism and realistic theories in this field. It seems that with the appearance of the new theories such as the constructivism that have significant theoretic capability due to the attention to the immaterial dimensions and the internal identification of the countries, the background of the better clarification of the foreign policy of Iran Islamic Republic has been prepared. In this paper, we want to investigate the foreign policy of Iran Islamic Republic in the ninth and tenth government- based on the principles of the constructivism theory. We assume that the constructivism theory can analyze the foreign policy of Iran in this period, so that in addition to the kind of the relation of Iran and Russia, the other axes of the foreign policy of Iran in the given period can be analyzed in the constructivism point of view.