Abstract:2017 is a turnaround year for Iran's diplomatic and internal affairs in contemporary history. Diplomatically,Iran not only helped the Governments of Iraq and Syria win the war against terrorism with the international coalition,but also opened the“Shiite Corridor”from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea,participated in shaping the Syrian peace process and the new pattern of the Middle East,and projected military influence to the Red Sea region. Iran is a regional power. The scope has reached a level not seen in a hundred years. However,Iran's excessive western expansion poses a great threat to Israel and some Arab countries. It also threatens the core interests of the United States in the Middle East and leads the new Trump Administration to subvert the Iranian policy of the Obama era,threaten to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear agreement and restrain Iran's“NATO in the Middle East”. In the internal affairs,the dividends brought about by the Iranian nuclear agreement continue to show,and the people also enjoy some benefits. Moderate President Ruhani,who initiated the process of reconciliation between Iran and the United States,succeeded in winning re-election. However,because Iran invested more oil revenue in long-term development and export of the Islamic revolution,the people accustomed to subsidy earned. At the end of the year,large-scale protests,demonstrations and riots broke out,pointing directly at Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Strategy and even questioning the Islamic Republican System,which resulted in the most serious national road belief crisis in the past 40 years of the Islamic Revolution.
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