Applying the Domestic Model of Soft Power in the Process of Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Today, globalization together with development in other areas of human life, has caused change in the nature and forms of power and increased the effect of soft power on the process of countrie's foreign policy, in a way that software power has paved the way for the appearance of regional and intermediate actors on the scene of international relations. As a part of this process, the deep division between the many potentials and the few achievements of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the area of soft power due to the lack of a domestic model to apply this concept in the country's foreign policy on the one hand, and countering the hegemonic and descriptive perception of soft power in its Western sense on the other have caused the author to try to set the conditions for the country to benefit from the software functions of power through providing a "resource-based domestic model" of soft power and "applying it in IRI's foreign policy.