نشریه دولت پژوهی ایران معاصر
سال هفتم شماره 1 (بهار 1400)

The Great Islamic Revolution of Iran celebrated the 40th anniversary of its victory while crossing the threshold of the fifth decade of its history. While its arrogant enemies made false assumptions about the revolution, its friends all over the world felt proud of its overcoming the challenges and making astonishing progresses. At such a turning point, the intelligent leader of the Islamic Revolution issued a “Declaration of the Second Step of the Revolution” to pursue this pure path, explaining the outstanding achievements of the last four decades, and giving basic recommendations for “a great Jihad to build a great Islamic Iran.” The “Declaration of the Second Step of the Revolution” is a renewed message addressing the Iranians, especially the youth, serving as a charter for the “second stage of self-construction, socialization and civilization” and marking a “new era in the history of the Islamic Republic.” This second step will make the revolution arrive at a closer distance to its great ideal, which is the creation of a new Islamic civilization and paving the way for the emergence of the Greatest Velayat

An important source of perceiving soft power sources of the countries involves the upstream documents of the political system a precise review of which can effective in explaining the sources of soft power. This research is intended to investigate the sources of soft power of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the upstream documents, specially the 20-year vision document. Employing descriptive method and quantitative content analysis, this study aims at finding out the most prominent sources of soft power in the 20-year vision document of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the components it contains. The findings of the research illustrates that the political, economic, cultural and scientific resources for the production of soft power of the Islamic Republic of Iran are present in the document to achieve the planned vision. The cultural components, containing 38.77 percent frequency stands out as the most prominent component among which spirituality and religious values ​​are most highly related to soft power of Iranian society on the horizon of 1404. Political resources with a frequency of 26.53 percent, economic resources with 22.44 and scientific resources with 12.24% frequency percentage are occupy the next ranks. Among soft power sources of the vision document, spirituality (54.34), national production (19.56), adherence to the political system (15.21) and knowledge and technology (10.86) gained the highest frequency. They can increase the soft power of Iranian society on the horizon of 1404.

Like other political movements, Takfiri activities are influenced by their original intellectual foundations, and this is clearly evident in Takfiri political actions. However, researchers in this field usually do not pay enough attention to this issue in the study of radical movements; instead, they base their researches on sociological and regional studies. This study, dealing with Takfiri movement in general (and not a specific one), is intended to find an find out the most important common philosophical principles of this movement and to discover how these principles affect their political action. In this respect, the author reviewed the documents and books of important theorists of this movement, such as those of Ibn Taymiyyah, through descriptive-analytical method. Ultimately, the research came to the conclusion that the Takfiri religion is seriously different from Islamic theoretically. In practice, too, their methods and strategies are rejected by other jurisprudential and theological schools. For instance, other Islamic branches seriously emphasize on the positivist and empirical approaches. The epistemology of Takfir, however, involves highly narrative and superficial in its ontology. Takfir emphasizes on monotheism in its theoretical methodology, and concentrates on Jihad in practice.

The poetry of the Islamic Revolution was an essential device in conveying Imam Khomeini's messages to people, which flowed in the process of the movement, being able to move forward step by step at the forefront of the struggle against Pahlavi regime in ​​the discourse and development of revolutionary literature. Through a historical and objective study of the works of revolutionary poets, this investigation is aimed at following the course of literary development during the revolutionary attempts to identify the position of the Islamic Revolution poetry in the development of revolutionary literature and the formation and dominance of Imam Khomeini's discourse. Appreciation of the background, the evolution, functions and linguistic and content diversity of the revolutionary poems, indicate that most of these works are created with regard to the personality, thinking, and political assumptions of Imam Khomeini (RA) with close attention to the minds and language of the people regarding literary points. In terms of the content, commitment to Velayat-e-Faqih (both in theoretical and external indicators) can be considered the main feature of the poetry of the Islamic Revolution. Furthermore, popularity in the form and format is the distinguishing feature of this poetic era.

Analyzing the structure and content of the wills of the martyrs demonstrates the martyrs’ intellectual systems before their martyrdom. This study is intended to analyze the wills of 32 martyrs of the operational intelligence of Sayyed al-Shohada Corps of Tehran Province in the Iran-Iraq war. Having a preliminary and survey investigation of the text and content of 32 wills, the researcher arrived at nine basic terms and important keywords. Afterwards, the statistical analysis of these terms through SPSS software revealed that each will, compared to the others, though similar at first glance because of the dominant discourse of those days concerning historical, ordinary and natural situation, is unique in content. This finding rejects the hypothesis of copying from one another’s’ wills, or copying from a specific text offered to them by their units.

Countries try to achieve convergence on the basis of their features in the regional arena. Countries in search of unity need convergence components such as common geopolitics, shared religion, etc. Otherwise, the relationship may turn into divergence. This type of divergence is evident among the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in its relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Accordingly, this study aims at investigating the factors, based on Cantori & Spiegel’s convergence Theory, affecting the divergences of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation after the Islamic Revolution. The research hypothesizes that the relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation suffers from significant divergence on the basis of structural, identity, and behavioral differences.  Differences in ethnicities, races, political structures, and types of political systems, as well as different approaches on regional and global developments are the main factors according to the same theory. This is an analytical-descriptive research.