Israel and the official narrative of national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Farhadian, MohammadHossein; Modarres, Mohammadvali; Ghorbani Sheikhneshin, Arsalan; Monavari, Seyed Ali

Israel and the official narrative of national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ PhD candidate in International Relations of Kharazmi University

² Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Khwarazmi University

³ Professor of the Department of International Relations Kharazmi University of Law and Political Science

⁴ Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Kharazmi University

Abstract

In the national security discourse of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the people are the reference point and their perception is decisive and consistent with the policies and decisions of the national security trustees. The Zionist regime once again in the discourse of national security Iran is considered Iran's enmity with the Zionist regime after the revolution is caused by the identity conflict arising from Iran's narrative of the Zionist regime. Therefore, this article seeks to answer the question, how is the Zionist regime depicted in the official narrative of the Islamic Republic of Iran? In order to answer this question, the words of Imam Khamenei (Madazla-ul-Ali), as the most representative official narrative, have been set as a criterion, and the observations collected through the method of narrative analysis have been analyzed and have an interpretive-descriptive approach. What emerged from this research indicates that the Zionist regime in Iran's official narrative is depicted as the "devil", hence the intensity of confrontation with it means "heroic" action and movement towards "good" and this identity is derived from this. The narrative has given clarity to Iran's security policy to deal with the Zionist regime.

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