The Foreign relations of the Islamic Republic of Iran and France (1979-2005)

The foreign relations of Iran to other countries, especially to powers which play a significant role in world politics and regional equations, are very important. One of these countries, which was important in the bi-polar world and after that and has announced independent policies, is France. This paper is an attempt to study the political relations of Iran and France 1979-2005 on the basis of the structural variables of the international system and the mental situations of the policy-makers of the two countries.