The Middle East forms the Islamic Republic of Iran’s
critical living space and the exact acknowledgement of its changes and
transformations is essential to Iran’s stability and existence. This
region because of various reasons such as enormous energy resources is
also at the core of the attention of global powers and its security has
been tied to the global security.
After the events of sep.11, 2001, U.S. strategies in
the Middle East changed dramatically and with the declaration of "War
against Terrorism" Afghanistan and Iraq were occupied. The
Neo-Conservative mainstream asked for fundamental transformation of the
Middle East and creation of Big Middle East. According to Strategic
Planning Model, in which a specific vision must be defined firstly and
some strategies must be designed in order to achieve the mentioned
vision, the Big Middle East is now considered as the vision that for its
fulfillment, various strategies are being designed and implemented by
the United States.
The quality of U.S. strategy in the Middle East
after the events of sep.11 is the main question of this research.
Answering to this and subsidiary questions of this
research lead us to this theory that "the United States of America in
the Middle East region has a grand and polyhedron strategy which
contains several political and cultural strategies."
The synchronized use of Hard Power and Soft Power by
the White House has created a complicated and miscellaneous composition
for analyzing which requires a comprehensive consideration. Therefore,
in this research five political strategies including: "Pre-emptive War",
"Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons", "Disarmament-Demobilization and
Re-integration", "Democratization" and "Nation Building" and also two
cultural strategies including: "Development of Secular Islam" and
"Propagation of American Life Style" are identified and considered.