Evaluation of Geopolitical Factors, Threats and Dangers of Border Areas of Kermanshah Province

Borders are permanent and enduring concepts in political geography and play an important role in the socio-economic life of residents around them. The border between Iran and Iraq has always played a key role in shaping the political, economic, social and cultural relations of the frontier people. This border has sometimes provided the tense and temporal ground for cooperation between the two countries. Kermanshah Province with more than 3km of international border in common with Iraq, having six border cities with high natural and human resources (mineral resources, oil, agriculture, border differences and religious and ethnic diversity ...) is of particular geopolitical importance. This paper examines the boundaries of Kermanshah province by using a descriptive-analytical method and as a documentary and library study with a strategic geopolitical perspective. The results show that although the current geopolitics is peace-based in the current situation, but some of the threats remain in place and will probably be eroded in the future due to the nature of the border; Therefore, increasing attention to intelligence, wall-building and reinforcement of structures across the border between the two countries is in line with the growing trend of social military threats, including the main needs of the country's official institutions.