Iranian National Interests and the New Geopolitics of Shiism

Nowadays the Iranian national interests are deeply related to the new geopolitics of Shiism, so that Iran always desires to play a role among the world's Shia, especially in Iraq. The later world and regional changes brought about this chance for Iran. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and examine the situation of the Shii new geopolitics and to determine the regional and meta-regional threats and their consequences in the present world, especially Iran's role in this relation. It is supposed that in the present conditions, given to its specific situation, Iran may change to a regional superior power.