The Governance of Cyberspace and the Juridical Rule of "Nafy al-Sabil" (Denying the Domination of Unbelievers over Believers) with an Emphasis on the Requirements of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The governance of cyberspace is one of the newly added topics to the political science and law. The governance of existing cyberspace, which is organized in the bed of the global internet, is one of the most challenging issues of the contemporary world. The religious nature of the Islamic Republic of Iran requires that, to propose the duties of the Islamic government in the management of cyberspace with regard to the foundations of Islamic jurisprudence. The principles of the constitution, derived from the dynamic Islamic jurisprudence, indicate that the Islamic Republic system has duties; such as: denial of domination, rejection of colonialism totally, prevention of the penetration of aliens, providing the conditions for self-sufficiency in the fields of science, technology and industry and creating suitable conditions for the growth of moral virtues. Using a descriptive-analytical and Ijtehadi method, and given the dominance of the aliens on cyberspace in two platforms of structure and content, this paper seeks to study the important duties of the Islamic Republic system towards this new phenomenon such as, creating the national information network, establishing the system of Imamate and the Ummah through co-operation with other Islamic countries, under the light of the juridical rule of "nafy al-sabil" (denying the domination of unbelievers over believers) and the constitutional principles of the Islamic Republic of Iran.