Clash of Interests and Middle East Security

Abundance of cellar springs, ethnic and religious pluralism and exclusive status on the one hand, political- economic crispy, cultural clashes and confluence of regional and trans-regional powers on the other hand have identified the middle east as an endless region in the world. in other words, transcendence of power politics, utilitarianist and interest-oriented calculations has shown the middle east as an area of diverse admixture. in this situation, based upon interest-oriented and national rationality, regional and transregional powers are trying to design the security geometry of the middle eastsubsystem. indeed, the presence of trans-regional actors and regional powers attempting to map the region’s security has transformed the middle east as a pole of the world’s security- political exchanges. this paper attempts to probe the security approaches of iran, the usa and the eu as regional and trans-regional actors towards the middle east.