National Security Threats in Border Areas: A Case Study of Kurdistan and Kermanshah Provinces

Today, territorial borders are one of the most important national and international issues. Ensuring national security is one of the priorities of governments in national and regional policy, which is always tried to be formulated; Identify threats, challenges and opportunities as well as the impact of different geographical locations on it. The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the national security threats in the border areas in the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah. The main question of the article is what are the threats to Iran's national security in the border areas of Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces? Due to the sensitivity of security on the western borders of the country and the importance of the issue, so far few studies have been conducted on this issue in the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah. . Iran is a country that has similar geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural positions in coexistence with neighboring countries. The results of the article show that the most important threats to Iran's national security in the border areas of Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces are: defense threats, political threats, social threats, economic threats, security threats