As we enter 2023, the rapidly emerging new multipolar world and the historic failure of the JCPOA process, are two realities that are significantly affecting Iranian foreign policy.
At the same time, Iran's ever-increasing hard and soft power rooted in the efforts and jihad of its own population are enhancing Iran's power and strategic options in this emerging new world.
Iran's succesful model of very significant independent social growth and development while resisting US hegemony, serves as the model for many countries as they seek to find their place in the new emerging world order, a soft power that Iran attained through decades of sacrifice and jihad of its people, a power that very few others in the world can lay claim to.