Comparison of Cultural Diplomacy and the Discourse of Political Islam in Imam Khomeini's Thought System

The discourse of political Islam with the central symbol of Islam, led to the formation of the Islamic Revolution and the manifestation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The driving force of this discourse was ideology. And due to Imam Khomeini's special interpretation of Islam, we witnessed the formation of a new power structure, which, due to its cultural and ideological nature, sought to rethink and revise the rules and principles governing the global and regional order. He sought to design a new order at the international level. Therefore, the research question is: What is the relationship between cultural diplomacy and the discourse of political Islam in Imam Khomeini's intellectual system? The construction and cultural nature of the Islamic Revolution led to a change in the nature of power and ultimately led to a change in the foreign policy and diplomacy orientations of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Imam Khomeini, by defining symptoms such as nation-centeredness, justice-seeking and cosmopolitan approach to the discourse of political Islam, sought human awakening and change within human beings. The issuance of the revolution was one of the most important tools of cultural diplomacy beyond propaganda. It sought to transform human societies and the application of software structures and soft power in foreign policy implemented a new logic in the international system. In the present study, the aim is to investigate the role and relationship between cultural diplomacy and the discourse of political Islam in Imam Khomeini's system of thought.