Iranian Foreign Policy: Context, Regional Analyses and U.S. Interests (Politics and Economics of the Middle East)

All papers cited as edited, reformatted and augmented versions of Congressional Research Service publications issued in 2015. Iran's foreign policy is the product of many, and sometimes competing, factors: the ideology of Iran's Islamic revolution; Iranian leadership's perception of threats to the regime and to the country; long-standing Iranian national interests; and the interaction of the Iranian regime's various factions and constituencies. This book begins with an examination of Iran's policy motivators and instruments of Iran's foreign policy before moving on to deeper analyses of Iranian foreign policy as a whole and by region.