Donald Trump's Foreign and Security Policy in the Indo-Pacific and Its Impact on the National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Using the hegemonic stability theory, this article seeks to answer the question of how US strategy under Donald Trump in the Indo-Pacific region affects Iranian national security. The purpose of the United States of America in the Indo-Pacific is to expand its power and maintain its hegemony in the region. Given that the region is the most challenging region to maintain the hegemony of this power, so the United States seeks to increase India's weight in the Indo-Pacific and to try to contain China in order to maintain its hegemony in the region. It is believed that China is a close threat and India a distant threat. Therefore, with the notion that India, as a future power in the Middle East, is not capable of challenging US interests in the region, it seeks to control China by strengthening India, a matter which directly and indirectly affects the security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Gives. By descriptive-analytical approach, the authors have tested the hypothesis that US policy in the Indo-Pacific increases tensions in Iran's immediate neighborhood, diminishes US attention to the Persian Gulf, withdraws from non-compliance, and increases the likelihood of tension in Iran's relations with Iran. It provides both China and Pakistan, but Washington's interest in using New Delhi's leverage against China's influence could potentially facilitate India's expansion of relations with Iran.