The confrontation and hostility of the Islamic Republic with the West has an identity root, this alienation and hostility was keyed as the central core of the identity of the Islamic Republic during the Pahlavi II era. This confrontation has continued since the beginning of the Islamic revolution until today, and the relations between the two sides have always been in ups and downs, so in this regard, the present research has sought to answer the question of how the extreme modernist policy of Pahlavi II affects the positions of Has the anti-Westernism of the Islamic Republic of Iran been effective? And in order to answer this question, the descriptive-analytical method and the library and website tools have been used, and by using the constructivist theory, this hypothesis has been proposed that the formation of the identity of the Islamic Revolution in the second Pahlavi period and resulting from the collision of policies The aforementioned regime has been modernist and the approach of the Islamic Republic lies in its identity, and with Pahlavi's confrontational approach towards the West, during the Islamic Revolution and the strengthening of the religious identity of the Iranian people, this hostility and confrontation intensified.
Soltani Renani M, marzbani F. (2024). The anti-western stances of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the influence of Pahlavi II's extreme modernism policy. IPSJ. 4(1), 31-52. URL: http://ipsj.iauh.ac.ir/article-1-100-en.html