Identifying Iran's geopolitical role in curbing terrorism from 2001 to 2020 in the Middle East region

In recent decades, the Middle East region has been involved in terrorism and terrorist movements, especially the spread of extremist religious movements, for several reasons. In such a way that the majority of terrorist incidents in the world occur in countries such as Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, etc., and for this reason, the Middle East has become the subject of many bilateral or multilateral international discussions regarding facing the crises arising from these terrorist currents. and the Islamic Republic of Iran, for various geopolitical reasons, under the influence of the spread of terrorism, has played its role in confronting these currents. In this research, which is analyzed in an analytical-descriptive method, the results of the research in response to the main question that "Iran's geopolitical logic in dealing with terrorism in the regional environment (2001-2020) was influenced by what factors" It shows that the logic of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in relation to countering terrorism in some regions such as Afghanistan and Syria has been influenced by geooptical approaches (defensive realism) and in some regions such as Iraq and Yemen, it has been influenced by geocultural approaches. In this research, the causes and reasons for such propositions in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the fight against terrorism in the Middle East region have been discussed in detail.