The dimensions of Islamic Republic of Iran's counter-terrorism strategy

Nowadays, phenomenon of terrorism has become one of the most important nation’s and government’s security concerns of around the world. Broadening phenomenon of terrorism isn’t confined to the specific region or governments, but all states from micro and less developed countries to great powers face the security problem in some way. With the escalation of terrorist activities, international measures increased for combating it, but despite all of international laws and measures for combating it, in order to cleaning the world from presence of terrorists that they have killed thousands of innocent human beings bloodily, international community hasn’t been successful to combat with this phenomenon completely yet. Up to now, approximately, the international community has performed three strategies in process of combating terrorism, but despite minimal victories and achievements of these strategies, none of them hasn’t battled with phenomenon of terrorism undamentally aimed at preventing terrorist actions in long-term. This study tries to explain dimensions of Islamic Republic of Iran’s counter-terrorism strategy over the past three decades. Hence, the findings of this research which base on descriptive-analytical method and objective-historical data and using library resources and cyberspace (e), show the Islamic Republic of Iran as one of the countries where the phenomenon of terrorism has become linked with its international and national security and has been damaged from terrorism doubly, meanwhile has used the military and tactical tools (short-term outcome) to deal with manifestations of terrorism, and as sought delimitating the roots of the factors causing terrorist acts (long-term outcome) and has carried out special policies and actions for counter-terrorism measures. This indicates that the Islamic Republic of Iran’ counter-terrorism strategy has been explicated.