نشریه مطالعات منافع ملی
پیاپی 29 (پاییز 1401)

The corona virus has changed all aspects of human life. As some speak of the world and the afterlife. In other words, the world will return to before Corona. The main purpose of this article is Corona's influence on political philosophy and the philosopher’s approach to Corona, both at the macro level and at the micro level and time concepts. Explaining that political philosophy is a response to the crises of our time. For this reason, current thinkers have given a philosophical explanation of Corona, given the effects of Corona on all aspects of human life on a global scale. In fact, Corona has challenged the fundamental themes of political philosophy, such as good and evil, happiness and virtue, the nature of governments, lifestyles and equality, and the status of religion. Consumption, the type of government, soft power, biotourism, etc. have been confronted with new perspectives and theories. However, philosophical conflicts over the effects of Corona, from statehood to the collapse of the state, capitalism to the decline of the capitalist system, science and technology to the contradiction with technology, and so on, continue.

 Iran's foreign policy strategy towards Iraq after the fall of Saddam has been influenced by various factors, including geography, religion, economy and axis of resistance. Given the US occupation of Iraq, the decline of established government and the army, the particular attitude of the regional countries gradually led to an increase in Iran's regional and global influence in the new Iraq. After the fall of Saddam, Iran's foreign policy in Iraq, on the one hand, shaped security in Iraq, because after Saddam and the fall of the Ba'athist army, the security crisis spread in Iraq. Iran has played a key role in shaping Iraq's new security, including hardware and software security. But on the other hand, the involvement of other regional countries, such as Saudi Arabia, has led to new security crises in Iraq. In fact, Iran's policy in Iraq has had paradoxical effects on national security. As the economic dimension and economic growth and the decline of extremist groups such as ISIS has had positive and capacity-building effects, but in other dimensions such as the support of Iran's regional rivals for the insurgency in Iraq, the survival of extremist groups, authority of the central government have been challenged. 

Iran has particular complexities, characteristics and certain condi-tion, including strong religious tradition and reproduction of religious values in the globalization era. Therefore, the majority of intellectuals talk about the challenge between tradition and modernity and a gap in the discourse of modernity in Iran. The viewpoints of recent Iranian intellectuals could be categorized in two groups after secularization in Iran: mundane thoughts and worldly thoughts. The discourse of worl-dly intellectuals shows the harmony between religion and world, func-tional attitudes toward religion, the privatization of religion and multi-level attitude towards Islam. The attitude of intellectuals toward secul-arization has structural problems. The secularization needs approp-riate conditions that don’t shape because of religion’s power and min-dset of Iranians. The secularization has suffered from the lack of strong philosophical, religious and social backgrounds. Social and political development indicate a change in the functions of theocracy because of introduction of religious doctrines to the field of politics and execution. Religion is dominant discourse in social, political, personal, cultural and economic sphere. Moreover, it has shaped behavioral, behavioral, mental, and occult pattern of religious Iranians and their all episteme-ological layers.

What happened in the Middle East, from Western countries’perspe-ctive, was a rebellion of unemployed youth and graduated persons, who are familiar with the requirements of information era, seeking freedom, quality and order of power’s new patterns. This perspective called Middle East developments Arab Spring and predicted the events by using theories of patrimonialism and democracy. Some experts would analyze the Middle East developments according to Islam and relations between theology and politics. They believe that thedevel-opments are a kind of Islamic awakening against the patterns of traditional despotism and western dictatorship. It seems none of perspectives happened and the Middle East is experiencingfundam-entalism.

Modern media are recognized as the main actor of human life in the 21st century as social media. This act at all levels, including the macro level, such as the introduction of lifestyle, macroeconomics (both the global economy and the context of the current world economy), the formation of new politics, as well as at the micro level such as local identity, nutrition style. In this re g a rd, the national interests of countries have also changed. In fact, states must re-examine their national interests in all respects with regard to the role of the media. This study examines the impact of the media on national interests. In fact, modern media, like the Internet, has the capacity to protect and advance the country's national interests, both domestically and in te rn at i o n a l l y. At the domestic level we can mention increased public participation, in crease in awareness, and transparency on all issues, reducing government s p ending, preventing rent-seeking, e-government and more. At the in t e r n at io n al level, promoting national security, reducing vulnerability, actively pa rti ci pating in international developments, promoting our norms and identity at a global level. They are possible with modern media due to their function and capacity. In all these areas, the nation's national interests in the economic, se curity, cultural and social spheres will be fulfilled. Of course, attention m u s t be paid to the power of internal media, media literacy, work in the media, and the reduction of the negative effects of new media.

Security in all its dimensions has been one of the most important obl i g a ti o n s for governments of the past to the present. In the 21st century, the im p o rt a n ce and aspects of security, such as cyber and psychological security, have b ec ome more important than ever. The social security dimension has been particularly important since it is the origin of other dimensions of sec u r ity in a society. Obviously, Imam Khomeini and Supreme Leader emphasized on security. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the dimensions of social security in the opinion of Imam Khomeini and of Supreme Leader. G i v en the ontological and anthropological foundations of Imam Khomeini a n d the Supreme Leader, Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader have co n s i d e r ed social security at both the macro and micro levels. At the macro level, we c an mention the sense of security in society, educational justice, public co n s e n sus and participation, the coherence of the (spiritual) inner dimension of security with the objective and material dimension, social justice and a sense of equality among citizens. At the micro level, we can include elements such as reducing discriminatory laws, combating class and social divisions, ad d r e ssing economic, educational of destitute community, elections, monitoring the performance of institutions and managers, combating corruption.