mostafa mohamadi ramezani

The Islamic Republic of Iran, in the fast-paced process of transformation in the world economic order, needs a fundamental transition from a vulnerable resource-oriented economic structure (oil) to a manufacturing-oriented economic model (industrial production). China, as one of the emerging powers effective in the formation of the new economic order, has an important capacity to create a new role for Iran at the regional and international level, but the bilateral relations between Tehran and Beijing have remained limited to the sale of oil and oil products. The main purpose of this research is to answer the question of how to redefine strategic relations with China according to the characteristics of the new world economic order. The findings of this research show that the most important concern that can cause a strategic link between Iran and China in the future is the overlap between China's need for continued economic growth and forming a new value chain and Iran's vision to become the factory of West Asia. With a new design, Iran can define an important part of its industrial development strategy and technological transformation program in the form of cooperation between Iranian and Chinese companies around the Belt and Road initiative corridor from Iran, and by learning and transferring experience and technology from China in A period of 5 to 10 years to become the main producer of factory industries in the region.

 The nuclear case has been one of the most complicated issues in the foreign and domestic policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. One of the reasons for this complexity was the contradictory approach of the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran to the enjoyment of "enrichment rights" by member states. US official policy in this regard was based on "zero enrichment" and "suspension of enrichment activities", and Iran, instead, emphasized the "right to enrichment" under the NPT. A historical examination of the US approach to the nuclear case shows that the country has imposed heavy multilateral sanctions on the basis of its understanding that the Islamic Republic of Iran is withdrawing under the international pressures from its positions. But, the ineffectiveness of sanctions on social dissatisfaction and the change of political will of the Islamic Republic of Iran to withdraw its right to enrich and halt the growth of Iran's technical capability to enrich uranium has altered Washington's understanding of the Islamic Republic's behavioral logic in foreign policy. The shift in US strategic understanding led to the Obama administration's shift from "zero enrichment" to "limited enrichment", which played an important role in initiating the process of direct Iran-US negotiations in Oman in 2012.