Quantitative content analysis of the sources of soft power of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the statement of the second step of the Islamic Revolution

the Islamic Republic of Iran needs a strategic planning for the application of soft power in foreign relations, and one of the requirements of soft power policy at the regional and international level is the correct recognition of the soft sources of power reproduction, rather than focusing on domestic potentials. provided the bases for increasing influence on national interests in the strategic environment. One of the platforms for knowing the sources of power is national and foreign documents. Since these documents are compiled and communicated according to the capacities, opportunities and threats facing the system, studying the clauses and principles of the above-mentioned documents can provide the model of power sources to the policy makers. Among the national documents of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the statement of the second step as a national document, strategic map and collective action plan has the appropriate capacity to identify and outline the multifaceted pattern of Iran's soft power sources in West Asia and the Islamic world, and considering the emphasis of the document The second step on the issue of national honor in foreign relations and demarcation with international political units, it is necessary to pay special attention to the category of soft power as one of the means of promoting national honor. Inevitably, the present article, by applying the multifaceted model of power sources and using the method of quantitative content analysis, examines the soft power sources in the aforementioned statement, and the author's effort will be to answer this question: what are the soft power sources of the Islamic Republic of Iran based on the statement of the second step of the revolution? Dimensions and components?