REPUBLICA MOLDOVA - REPUBLICA ISLAMICĂ IRAN: EFICIENTIZAREA RELAŢIILOR BILATERALE PRIN REDIMENSIONARE
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA AND ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: IMPROVEMENT OF BILATERAL RELATIONS THROUGH THE RECONSIDERATION

Summary/Abstract: During centuries the map of the Middle East raises many questions, whose answers could not be formulated in a simplistic manner, because the simplicity of this space being rejected by the geopolitical history of the region - one full of grandeur and, at the same time, dramatic events. According to the researches on the way of the Islamic Republic of Iran to promote foreign policy and geopolitical strategy, it is based on a double joint of the pragmatic and ideological elements. This dimension reflects a balance between ideology and pragmatism in Iranian foreign policy’s practical decisions, which has been the most persistent and difficult characteristics throughout Iranian history. Iran has been and remains the pivotal state, an area with a social, religious and civilization dynamics, but with some controversies, too. Iran's active position plays a special role and it opens a very strong geopolitical horizon of the Middle East. These favourable circumstances led the Republic of Moldova to guide one of its foreign policy directions to this space, where Iran is a locomotive of some economic and development projects. The policy of neighbourhood relations demonstrates the rejection of ideologization of foreign policy and it shows a pragmatic “rhetoric”. Beyond the “vehement speech” of Tehran’s regime, many visions on Iranian diplomacy have determined the Moldovan political elite to reorient the foreign policy vectors towards the Middle East and have definitively convinced the diplomats from Chisinau that the Islamic Republic of Iran falls into the category of potential partners.

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