The Role of Geopolitical Factors in the Islamic Republic of Iran in Providing the Shiites of the World with a Political Model

When the Islamic Revolution take place, the bipolar system of theoism and humanism and Iran’s situation as a geo paradigm began serving as the center of a theoist (God-centered) world to let peoples free from the aliens’ effort to dominate them. The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only Islamic country in the world with a sovereignty system based on Wilayat al Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist or Providence of the Jurist), which represents a geopolitical and Shiite location in the West of Asia. The present article plans to answer this question “Does Iran’s geopolitical location has the capability of providing the Shiites of the world with a political model?”. The method used in this research is descriptive-analytical with a developmental type. The findings of the research showed that the geopolitical factors like the Shiite population, the regional conditions and the status of power has an impact on the political model advocated by the Shiites, where the Islamic Republic of Iran has managed to expand its strategic depth worldwide by employing the strategies used in giving depth to Shiites. The type of the response to the Islamic Revolution of Iran shown by countries indicate a change in the Shiites’ behavior in the world where they have accepted the Islamic revolutionary regime as a political model, and that the geopolitics of the Islamic Republic of Iran is an influential and important factor that is capable of being copied as a political model by the Shiites of the world.