Geostrategic Analysis of Iran-Pakistan Relations with Focus on Security Factor

Having a long common border line and being two key players in southwest Asia, Iran and Pakistan have had great effects on the international changes. There are some conflicts of interests between the two countries, but political and geostrategic circumstances between them have made them cooperate closely. The nature of bilateral relationships between the two countries and their outlooks toward different regional and international issues including security issues, the variables of Afghanistan, India, and the United States, the conflicts of interests of Sunni, Shiite, fundamentalists, and Salafist groups, the nuclear issue, and NATO forces can affect the future of the peace in the Middle East. This paper is an attempt to analyze the future of relations between Iran and Pakistan in a security geostrategic atmosphere. Thus, the paper claims that the most important variable between Iran and Pakistan after the Islamic Revolution, in general, and after September 11 attacks, in particular, has been a strategic factor in a geostrategic atmosphere. In reality, given the geopolitical and geostrategic situation between Iran and Pakistan and the security issues between them, the strategic stances of politicians of the two countries toward each other is of a security-oriented nature.