Soft power in good governance based on Imam Khomeini's thought with emphasis on transparency

Transparency as an important component of good governance, in short, is any action taken by the government to inform the people of their decisions and to provide the necessary information for their lives. This concept has been considered by various scholars, some of whom try to confirm and expand this concept in the thought of Islam and Islamic thinkers. This article seeks to answer the question of what place transparency has in soft power in proper governance in Imam Khomeini's thought.For this research, the content network method, one of the content analysis methods, has been used as one of the most widely used data analysis methods. In this method, the basic themes related to transparency in the research source are collected and the related basic themes are categorized under the organizing themes and the related organizing themes are integrated under the comprehensive themes.After studying, transparency in Imam Khomeini's thought was divided into two comprehensive themes: "The content of transparency in Imam Khomeini's thought" and "Transparency requirements in Imam Khomeini's thought" and the results were obtained. Research shows that in Imam Khomeini's thought, in accordance with Alawite thought, transparency in the sense has been associated with his rule and accepted and emphasized by him, although the name of "transparency" in the system of literature and His words do not exist.