Editor's Note Foreign Policy and Iran’s Islamic Revolution

Iran has marked the 33rd anniversary of the victory of its islamic revolution. how can one analyze the foreign policy report card of the islamic revolution? it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to discuss the details of the foreign policy-related issues of the islamic revolution at the three distinctive, yet related, levels of national, regional and international political dynamics. however, through a careful examination of all foreign policy actions and interactions of the islamic republic, we may infer that independence stands as the most dominant prism through which the foreign policy of the political system in iran can be understood. independence in the foreign policy decision-making of iran, as a byproduct of the islamic revolution, gave birth to a new regional setting with its global impacts