‘Great Holy War’ as the Conceptual Constituent ‘in the Foreign Political Discourse of the Grand Leader Ayatollah Khamenei

The analysis of the foreign policy is one of the most important research field in political sciences and international relations which is concerned with the behaviors and foreign orientations of states – as the most fundamental outcome of the foreign policy of each nation. In the
Islamic Republic of Iran, the role of Leadership in foreign policy is significantly important. This article seeks to reinterpret the ‘Great Holy War’ as one essential strategy in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as put by the Grand Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
This is a discourse which has been of less importance in discussions raised so far. The main question in this research work is ‘why the Great Holy War was put forward in the realm of foreign policy and how it functions in the foreign policy as an entity. Our thesis has been
formulated as the one that considers the Great Holy War as a strategy of Islamic Republic’s foreign policy. It is characterized firstly to be of discourse nature that guards against those discourse of influence and secondly to function as something that gives identity to the foreign
policy of the Islamic Republic at the international level. The theoretical framework and approach taken to conduct the research is one of constructivist type along with emphasis on the identity aspect of the thesis in question.