Systemic Change and Iran-China Strategic Partnership

The Iran-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement can be considered an important development in Iran's strategic position and its relations with the great powers. From the author's point of view, systemic change is the key force shaping this agreement; In other words, the question is, what factors have shaped the strategic partnership between Iran and China? The hypothesis presented in response to this question is that the three components of redistribution of international power, change in the hierarchy of prestige and change in international rules of biology as key components of systemic change provide the structural basis for promoting Iran-China relations to strategic partnership. The findings of the article show that structural forces have played a key role in increasingly overlapping the interests and values ​​of the two countries' foreign policies and expanding their relations in the form of comprehensive strategic partnership.