origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran
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foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged history and a unique identity. being as a state, it is regarded as a small government that is not even able to provide its own security. they have some distinctive characters that itcould be truly said, "they are neither an eastern nation nor western. these thesis talks about political & environmental compulsions of armenia, religious isolation among muslims and its entanglement in geographical region. the main subject in this research is to find out which of these foundations influenced on foreign policy of armenia .of course, we had to deal it with the different presidential term (petrosian, kocharian, sargsyan). discussion regarding the methods of the mentioned foundations’ effectiveness due to armenias tendency towards turkey is an important problem as well which needed scrutiny.although the mechanism of foreign policy of iran is emphasized on the identity & religion but iran has never regarded christian country of armenia as ,enemy, which from armenian’s point of view holds high significance. whereas, from turks & azeri’s point of view the armenians always been regarded as, enemyarmenian strategic approach toward iran is less about history but more of practical necessity. armenias relations with iran are driven by the need for an outlet from the east-west blockade of armenia.