This study explores the reconstruction of Iranian national identity during the Mohammad Reza Shah era (1953 to 1979). Drawing on materials collected from the memoirs and statements of the Shah and the key actors of the era and using Historical Sociology in International Relations as its theoretical backbone, it aims to unravel the constitutive role of the international on the formation of Iranian state nationalism. It argues that in order to understand the meaning attached to being Iranian, we should look into the specifics of international- domestic interaction, as Iranian national identity has been framed and re-framed by the Shah alongside the changing dynamics born out of specific interaction between the domestic and international dynamics. The Shah’s interpretation of Iranian identity emerged and evolved at the intersection of his endeavours for gaining legitimacy against the legacy of Mosaddeq and his popular nationalism at the domestic level and for reclaiming the actorness of Iran during the Cold War at the international level. Playing inwards and outwards, the Shah sought to deconstruct the content of Iranian nationalism articulated by Mosaddeq and to give a new meaning to Iranian nationalism. Serving as the ideological glue of his state building, it was characterized by a strong belief in the rapid industrialization, emphasis on unity rather than diversity, uniqueness of Iranian identity vis-à-vis the East and the West, and presentation of the Shah as the real and moral representative of the Iranian people.

本研究探讨了穆罕默德·礼萨·沙阿 (Mohammad Reza Shah) 时代（1953 年至 1979 年）期间伊朗民族认同的重建。它利用从沙阿和那个时代的关键人物的回忆录和声明中收集的材料，并以国际关系中的历史社会学为理论支柱，旨在阐明国际在伊朗国家民族主义形成中的构成作用。它认为，为了理解作为伊朗人的意义，我们应该研究国际-国内互动的具体细节，因为伊朗的民族身份已经被国王框定和重新框定，同时伴随着因两国之间的特定互动而产生的不断变化的动态。国内外动态。沙阿对伊朗身份的解释是在他努力获得合法性以对抗摩萨台的遗产和他在国内层面的流行民族主义以及在国际层面恢复伊朗在冷战期间的角色的过程中出现和演变的。国王从内到外都试图解构摩萨台所表达的伊朗民族主义的内容，并为伊朗民族主义赋予新的含义。作为他的国家建设的意识形态粘合剂，它的特点是对快速工业化的坚定信念，强调统一而不是多样性，伊朗身份相对于东方和西方的独特性，以及将沙阿描述为伊朗人民的真实和道德代表。