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Since Ayatollah Khomeini's death in 1989, Iran has taken a pragmatic and realist foreign policy. We will therefore demonstrate that Iran is a calculating State when it comes to relations with its neighbors. By taking a "Realpolitik" approach, the mullahs have always estimated the cost-benefits of their actions. First, we will discuss Iran's relations with the States of Central Asia in the post-communist era. Then, about Iran's position in the Armenia-Azerbaijan war about the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Third, We will demonstrate the Islamic Republic's accommodating attitude with Russia's war in Chechnya. The fourth case study will be Iran's interactions with Afghanistan, during and after the Taliban's rule. To conclude, our symposium's main point is that Iran, obsessed with bolstering its security, is fully prepared to subordinate the interest of "Muslim Liberation" to those of the Iranian state… in the same manner that Stalin placed the safekeeping of the USSR before the needs of world communism. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]