The effect of military geopolitical factors of resistance axis countries on the development of Iran's defense strategy in the West Asia region

West Asia, due to the current developments of the international system, has caused the countries of the axis of resistance in the region to have great geopolitical importance. This importance due to their geographical connection with the country of Iran can have a great impact on the defense strategies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The country's defense strategy should be investigated as a research problem; Therefore, in the current research, by using the descriptive-analytical method and in an applied manner, and by using the library method and field research, an attempt has been made to find the military geopolitical factors that are relevant and effective on the formulation of the defense strategy of Iran as the research objective. be identified. For this purpose, in order to determine these factors and explain their role (in the form of opportunistic, threatening, strength and weakness platforms), a two-part questionnaire was prepared and designed in order to confirm the effective factors of military geopolitics and their calculated roles on the development of a defense strategy among the statistical sample population. 50 people were distributed as a whole number and after obtaining the opinion of the statistical sample community, it was analyzed using statistical techniques and methods, and then the research questions were summarized and evaluated, and finally, in the conclusion part and in response to the questions The research, while determining the effective factors of the military geopolitics of the resistance axis countries, to explain the four roles (strength, weakness, opportunity and threat) of these factors which are effective in the formulation of the defense strategy of Iran. Been paid.