K.M. Davoudi, M.Yu. Gutkin and H.M. Shodja* Department of Civil Engineering, Center of Excellence in Structures and Earthquake Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 11155-9313 Tehran, Iran Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoj 61, Vasil. Ostrov, St. Petersburg 199178, Russia Department of Physics of Materials Strength and Plasticity, St. P...

H.M. Shodja,* K.M. Davoudi and M.Yu. Gutkin Department of Civil Engineering, Center of Excellence in Structures and Earthquake Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 11155-9313 Tehran, Iran Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Sharif University of Technology, 11155-9161 Tehran, Iran Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoj 61, Vasil’e...

T his paper is an attempt investigating the relationship between sanctions implications and geographical shift in trading partners. To this end, we analyze separately foreign trade patterns of two countries namely Iran and Russia - which are under imposed sanctions experience - with two United Nations Regional Groups (The Asia-Pacific and the Western European groups)  using a gravity...

Along the history, relations between Iran and Russia always faced with great changes and transitions and always, the foundation of these relations have been on the base of political, security and military and sometimes economical affairs. Iran and its people have special identity elements like: Persian language, Shiite Islamism, nationalism, regional hegemonies, anti-foreignism and etc, that so...

islamic republic of iran enjoys close and amicable relations with small and christian republic of armenia. on the contrary, the ties between iran and seemingly significant shia republic of azerbaijan are frayed. while tehran’s close relationship with yerevan is widely attributed to geographical and economic isolation of armenia, iran-azerbaijan unfriendly relations have stemmed from suspicion a...

russia and iran, one with european background and slavic racial origins with the other one being of asian descent with non-slavic racial origins, are playing their roles in building regional and international order according to their respective capacities, capabilities. geopolitical and geostrategic developments and differences in proclaimed and practical approaches have historically changed th...