Islamic Awakening and How It Affects Relations between Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council

Volume 9, Issue 1 - Serial Number 32
Spring 2025
Pages 347-368

Document Type : Original Independent Original Article

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Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract
The Arab revolutions and the uprisings known as the Islamic Awakening in late 2010 brought about widespread changes in the Middle East and North Africa. These widespread movements created a favorable environment for a huge wave of major changes in the region's political and economic chessboard. These inflamed conditions have caused a widespread transformation in the region's political discourse, which in turn has led to major changes in the region's power equations and the alignment of political actors and movements. These developments have led to the confrontation of different discourses in the region, which has subsequently led to confrontations between different identity approaches. The Arab revolutions have confronted the relations between Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council, as two groups with different identity and discourse approaches and different understandings of this single phenomenon, with confrontation and intensification of conflict and darkening of relations between the two sides. This article attempts to answer the question of how and in what ways the Islamic Awakening and recent developments have affected the relations between the two sides. The answer to the article is that through the intensification of five factors: ideological differences, conflicting perceptions, power competition,

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