The Role of Sports Pattern in Explaining the Public Diplomacy of Iran

This research was conducted with the aim of the role of sports pattern in explaining the public diplomacy of Iran. The present study was conducted within the framework of a qualitative approach, and the required data were collected using semi-structured interviews. The statistical population of this study were all experts in social participation in sport, including sports management professors (8 students), professors of international relations and political science (3 students), senior sports officials (3 people), and elite athletes (3 people). The sample method was snowballs mode. The method of data collection was based on previous studies and in-depth interviews. To assess credibility, transfer, and verifiability, they provided the participants with the findings of the research, and they examined the text of the theory and their views. The method used for reliability was an intra-subject agreement method. The average agreement within the subject was 0.73. Causal factors influencing the role of exercise in explaining Iranian public diplomacy included soft power, information and communication, the understanding and insight. Contextual factors included cast and learning, and intervention factors were effective environmental factors. Also, strategies affecting the role of sport in explaining Iranian public diplomacy included: Empowerment, communication networks and public propulsion, and finally the implications of the role of sport in explaining public diplomacy in Iran. They included economic function, cultural function, political function, and social development.