Analysis of the Impact of Lebanon's Hezbollah on the Regional Goals of the Islamic Republic of Iran with an Emphasis on the Syrian Civil War

Document Type : مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

Authors

• javad hamidiravari ¹
• Farhad Hamze ²
• Ali Bijani ³

¹ political geography, faculty of humanities, islamic Azad University of central tehran, tehran, iran.

² Political Geography, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

³ Department of Geography, Central Tehran Azad University

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2022.74232.1123

Abstract

Throughout history, political geographers have paid special attention to the effects of the Middle East region on global powers and the effects of Middle East crises on the balance of power at the regional levels. In recent years, the crisis of the Syrian civil war has been one of the developments that have turned this country into a new camp on the line of strategic competition. The destabilization project of Syria was raised as a factor in the direction of weakening the resistance front and regional containment of Iran. Therefore, the Syrian crisis provided an arena for the presence of regional and trans-regional actors in the Middle East region. Lebanon's Hezbollah that is one of the allies of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Resistance Front played a prominent role in the victory of the Resistance Front against the opposition forces of the Syrian regime. Hezbollah has focused on the Syrian civil war, according the regional goals of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The main question of the current research is that what were the most important achievements of the Hezbollah in the Syria and which role did the Hezbollah play in Iran's regional policies? The results showed that the military and strategic achievements were the most important ones of Hezbollah in the Syrian civil war. In this regard, Hezbollah was able to play an effective role in Iran's regional policies.

Keywords

• Strategic Competition
• Crisis
• Syrian Civil War
• Hezbollah
• Islamic Republic of Iran

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