Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

The concept of security became the focus of scholars, beyond its military dimension, especially in the social dimension, and with a focus on culture and identity with the end of the Cold War. The theory of "ontological security" is a new approach proposed by Jennifer Mitzen in the field of conflicts in international relations with an emphasis on identity considerations. The inevitable contradiction of Western culture with the culture of the Islamic Revolution of Iran must be sought in the ontological foundations of these two political cultures accordingly the ostracism. The aim of this study is to identify the conflicting ontological foundations of Western culture with Islamic culture, which is consistent in the process of cultural invasion. This study seeks to answer this question, according to the ontological, why does the Islamic Republic of Iran view Western culture as an aggressive culture? The findings of this study show by using the teachings of Mitzen theory that the ontological conflict of the discourse of the Islamic Revolution of Iran with the West is affected by the uncertainty and perception of insecurity in the ontology of the leaders of the Islamic Revolution in the face of the West due to the confrontation of the concepts of reason and ignorance in these two discourses, and any provision of ontological security from the perspective of the discourse of the Islamic Revolution in this confrontation depends on maintaining independence and intellectual identity and emphasizing on preserving the form and content of Islamic teachings. The method of this study is parallelism-comparatively that by comparing the ontological foundations of the two systems of thought of the West and the Islamic Revolution, reveals the conflict and incompatibility of these two fields of thought, and emphasizes the implications of ontological security of the Islamic Republic of Iran in relations with the West.