Urban Geopolitics and Violence to Iranian cites, Critical theory城市地缘政治与暴力的伊朗，批判理论.docVIP

Urban Geopolitics and Violence to Iranian cites, Critical theory of urban destruction in Iraq war with Iran Qadir Siami is candidate of PhD for geography and urban planning in the Department of Geography, University of Ferdowsi, Mashhad, I.R.Iran. E-mail1:siami26@: Hasan khalil Abadi is in International University of Chabahar in Chabahar, I.R.Iran. E-mail: Palateb@. Abstract Wartime demolition and postwar reconstruction of urban areas during and after World War II and ensuing postcolonial conflicts became a matter of interest already in the early 1950s with the termination of the immediate initial postwar reconstruction process. In the other hands Dynamic nature of geopolitics as the knowledge of analyzing power-relations and developing power-ties and competition inside and between cities, make up the foundation and basis of a new discipline in the academic system of the west called urban-geopolitics.” With this approach and based on the analytical method, this critical paper pursues three primary aims. At first, stressing the concept of violence against Iranian cities in Iran-Iraq war. In this framework, I try to explore the urban geopolitics and current critical approach in geopolitics. Secondly, I try to demonstrate the lack of a consistent analytical framework in Iran’s urban-political academic system for the analysis of formal and informal violence against the Iranian cities. And finally, I try to unmask the devastating and militaristic violence of Iraqi Baath Party and some western countries in an eight-year (1980–88) war against Iran and the massacre of innocent civilians and devastation of many defenseless cities, especially Khorramshahr. Key word: urban geopolitics, violence against city, Iraq war to Iran, Iranian cities Introduction Wartime demolition and postwar reconstruction of urban areas during and after World War II and ensuing postcolonial conflicts became a matter of interest already in the early 1950s with the termination of the immediate initi