Effectiveness of Moderate Approaches to Iranian Foreign Policy and Regional Strategies of the Twelfth Government

The approach of moderation as a political approach can help all the supporters and opponents of achieving its goals. Moderation in conceptual foreign policy as opposed to extremism and even reformism is seen as a concept of revisionism and evolutionism, and may be regarded as a kind of conservatism. The Twelfth Government, which insisted on moderation in all areas in the continuity of the Eleventh Government, has been less able to implement and exploit this approach in its foreign policy and regional relations. Accordingly, this paper, using a descriptive-analytical research method, has raised the fundamental question, "How is the effectiveness of the concept of moderation in foreign policy and regional relations of the Twelfth State assessed?" In response to this question and as a formulation of the hypothesis, the paper has analyzed and explained that "the concept of moderation was more abstract and impractical than practical in its twelfth government and its foreign policy, and therefore ineffective". . The findings of the article indicate that with the decline of the twelfth government's moderate approach, the foreign policy process and regional strategy of Iran have again become a security bottleneck and have returned to tensions with world and regional powers. Tensions stemming from the JCPOA deadlock, continued conflict in the Syrian crisis and other regional problems, including tensions with countries such as Saudi Arabia and strategic ambiguity over powers such as the Europeans and the return to direct and intense hostilities with the United States are the most significant signs.