The Geopolitical Foundations, Capacities and Challenges in Iran's Policy of Alliance with the Countries of Latin America

The development of political, economic, cultural etc relations with the countries of Latin America during the two recent decades has been among the important approaches in the foreign policy of the Islamic republic of Iran. It follows that what matters is the explanation and rationalization of the behavioral pattern of the Islamic Republic of Iran in dealing with the countries of Latin America in accordance with national interests and in line with the structural developments of the international order. Accordingly, The present research aims to explain the political foundations, and delineate the existing situation, as well as the future capacities and challenges the Islamic Republic of Iran will face in its policy of establishing alliances with Latin America region. So, this research, which employs an analytical-descriptive method by gathering library data, tries to answer this question: What characterizes the policy of alliance in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s approach to Latin America region? To answer this question, while raising a series of subquestions and using theoretical basics based on strategic depth and soft balance, this main hypothesis was raised: the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards Latin America is explained based on the policy of alliance with simultaneous emphasis on the value-based identity and on the requirements for enhancing the geopolitical status for countering the hegemonic regime. This policy of alliance includes norm orientedness, opportunism, developing the strategic depth, and profit-orientedness By the same token, Iran should adopt the policy of alliance at different political, cultural, economic and...levels by considering the capacities, Latin America and the existing challenges.