National Role Conception and Foreign Policy Analysis; Iran's Foreign Policy toward Israel between 1948-1953

Identifying and explaining "foreign policy behavior" is a way to understand the practical issues in international relations.
Therefore, this study aims to provide a new expression of why and how to change the behavior of the Iranian foreign policy toward Israel in historical intervals 1948-1951 and 1951-1953 by searching first hand sources, within the framework of the theory of "foreign policy role. "Mohammadsaed Maraghei" administration recognized Israel as two factors in 1949, but the government, but "doctor Mohammad Mossadegh" closed the Iranian consulate in Jerusalem in 1951. The main research question is why this change in behavior happened? Based on the main hypothesis of the role theory, foreign policy behavior of the government arises from "concepts of policy maker's national role" and variations of those concepts led to behavior changes in foreign policy. The hypothesis of this study is also affected by the above-mentioned assumptions, the change of Iran's behavior in the face of Israel was resulted by the change of concepts of Iranian policy maker's national role. For research hypotheses, the sequence of historical events which formed the concepts of Iranian policy maker's national role toward Israel, has been examined by using "tracking process".