نرگس رحیمی منش

After the second world war, and with the

independence of the colonies and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the number of emerging countries in the world increased and new countries gained independence, and the countries of the southern Persian Gulf also emerged after this period. Considering that in the current new world order, countries need close relations especially at the regional level to advance their national interests and goals, especially that the Cooperation Council covers the entire southern area of the country and strategic-political and economic issues for Iran. It is very important. Therefore, knowing the opportunities and challenges affecting the relations between Iran and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council is very important because it plays an important role in the relations between the two sides and advancing the goals and securing national interests. In the current situation, the activities of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council are not compatible with the national interests of Iran, and the common assessment in Iran considers the policies of this council as an organization that is under the influence of the United States and has a confrontational approach with Iran. The absence of the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the defense-security pacts of the region is one of the important issues that has made Iran face serious challenges in facing emerging threats and neutralizing policies that isolate and ignore Iran in various relations in the region. With this in mind, in this research, an attempt was made to examine the influence of the countries of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council and the cooperation of the members of this council with the United States on Iran's national security at different levels. In this regard, the following issues have been investigated and analyzed based on the efficiency of descriptive-analytical data: First, the cooperation between the United States and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council can be considered a threat to national security. Especially since the members of the council have tried to turn this threat into an opportunity to change the intellectual and political equations of regional geopolitics. Second, the Islamic Republic of Iran has looked for the source of the threats caused by the cooperation between the Gulf Cooperation Council and the United States, mostly beyond its borders and not as an internal issue and civil and political demand, and finally, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the United States have reacted more hardware (of course, in most cases, demonstrative and not practical) towards Iran's regional actions.