GAS DIPLOMACY IN THE AHMADINEJAD AND ROUHANI GOVERNMENT PERIODS AND ITS IMPACT ON IRAN'S POLITICAL ECONOMY
In the current era, the importance of energy diplomacy and, consequently, the importance of gas as the main political factor in the energy cycle is increasing day by day. By carefully examining the fluctuations in production and exports, as well as the investing companies during the two presidential terms of Ahmadinejad and Rouhani, one can clearly understand the importance and necessity of formulating gas diplomacy for the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this regard, this research seeks to examine energy diplomacy with a focus on gas in these two periods. This research seeks to answer the question of what characteristics the energy diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran had in these two specific periods and whether it can be said to be a specific and codified diplomacy? Considering the characteristics of energy diplomacy during the presidential terms of Ahmadinejad and Rouhani, it must be said that the Islamic Republic of Iran did not have a specific and codified gas diplomacy in these two periods. Among the similarities, the lack of codification and the lack of a specific program in the field of energy in general and gas in particular, and the differences, the way they look at diplomacy and adopt different policies.
Gas diplomacy, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Rouhani.