Despite its short-comings Iran is leveraging its current relations on the Arab street to advance its hegemony in the region. However, maintaining this momentum is predicated upon exploiting the populist sentiment

Parsi and Marashi in 2011(Trita, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council, Reza, research director for the National Iranian Council and Previous served in the U.S. State Department in the Office of Iranian Affairs, “Arab Spring Seen From Tehran”, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/Pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=62)

In the short to medium term...this is arguably the most likely scenario

The impression of American support for popular revolution will cascade throughout the region, causing extremist takeover and allowing Iran to expand its regional hegemony

Shmuel Bar in 11 ( director of studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel, Policy Review,  America's Fading Middle East Influence, academic search premier)

If the impression of American support...government in that primarily tribal country. 

Iran is attempting to expand its sphere of influence by rolling back the Arab Spring and funding terrorist organizations across the middle east

Maginnis in 2011(Robert, Army Lt. Col. (Ret) and National security and foreign affairs analyst for radio and television, “U.S. Paving the Way for Iran Hegemony”, Human Events, 7/12, http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44787)

First, Iran is rapidly expanding...most others in the Taliban’s arsenal

Terrorism risks extinction

Pacotti 3 (Sheldon, Salon.com, March 31 http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/31/knowledge/index.html)

A similar trend has appeared...even these basic, long-held beliefs

A)  The discourse of security allows IR-oriented politics to determine our political strategy.  This focuses all knowledge and study of politics on the public sphere, at the expense of politicizing private familial relations, closing off a better understanding of foreign policy. The impact is the suppression of sexual difference and continued structural violence

Peterson in 2000 (V Spike, Associate Professor of Political Science @ Arizona, SAIS Review, 20.2, rereading public and private:  the dichotomy that is not one, project muse)

In the first variant, I read...violence and the security questions it raises.

B)  The adoption of certain epistemologies is not an innocent choice; it is the fundamental justification for allowing a white, male-centered view of International Relations that justifies the oppression of marginalized groups

Pandey in 2k6 (Anupam, thesis submitted to faculty of graduate studies and research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctorate of philosophy department of political science Carleton university, forgin bonds with women, nature and the third world:  an ecofeminist critique of international relations, proquest<103-105>) 

Both traditional IR theory and its...exploitation in relationships between humans

C) The problems of late modernity have culminated with environmental destruction and the threat of nuclear conflict-only through the recognition of alternate epistemologies can the structural violence of IR be contained

Connoly in 2k2 (William, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science @ Johns Hopkins University, Identity/Difference, expanded edition)  

Many contemporary theorists proceed...second time with transcendental proofs?

D) Our alternative is an Ecofeminist, standpoint epistemology-this involves understanding the originary Otherization of nature and women by men.  All other forms of violence are justified by this epistemology-only by embracing the knowledge structures of Others who have been excluded because of their association with femininity and nature can we unravel the violence of modernist binaries.

Pandey in 2k6 (Anupam, thesis submitted to faculty of graduate studies and research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctorate of philosophy department of political science Carleton university, forgin bonds with women, nature and the third world:  an ecofeminist critique of international relations, proquest) <140-143>

The most significant contribution of...very basis of their own survival.