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The rivalry between China and the United States in the new century is one of the most important drivers of geopolitical rivalries at various regional and trans regional levels. China is considered one of the great powers that has the potential to become a superpower and challenge the current position of the United States, something that has worried US strategists and officials. As a result, in the second decade of the 21st century, the United States shifted the focus of its national security strategy from the Middle East to East Asia in order to counter this potential threat. With the withdrawal or diminishing presence of the US presence in the region, traditional US allies such as Israel and Arab countries are afraid of expanding the sphere of influence of their geopolitical rivals, namely Iran and Turkey, and given the historical experiences of the region and Iran's geopolitical influence in the current situation, these countries have been forced to cooperate bilaterally and multilaterally. Israel has traditionally chosen the Peripheral Alliance strategy as a complement to its national security strategy. Given the possibility of a reduction in military forces in the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli agreement in the form of the Abraham Accords Peace Agreement seems to represent a new Rimland with the aim of controlling and limiting the geopolitical influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Using the descriptive-analytical method and based on library and Internet resources, tries to provide a geopolitical explanation of the Abrahamic Accords in terms of its effects and consequences on regional relations in the Persian Gulf and especially the goals and interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The results show that if the project is implemented, we can expect the emergence of a new regional Rimland with the aim of controlling and weakening Iran.

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Structure safety in the design of civil engineering projects has always been very important for engineers. One of the mechanisms that structure will fail and in recent years is much attentioned to it is progressive collapse. Progressive collapse in structures during earthquakes even in an explosion near the construction has become a major challenge and can create problems for structures and may even lead to the destruction of the entire structure. Currently the most available structures is only designing against the gravity loads and lateral loads (wind and earthquake).In fact a resistant structure against the earthquake is not resistant against the progressive collapse necessarily. Therefore designing the new and special structures against the progressive collapse is necessary. Progressive collapse is defined as extension of primary local failure from element to other element that finally collapsed all part of the structure or big part of it. Potential hazards that cause progressive collapse are fires, gas explosions, make a mistake in design of structure, accidents, bomb and even an unprincipled excavation that cause sudden removal one or more elements of structure and etc. The purpose of this paper is to investigate progressive collapse in steel structures with eccentric braced frames that also the influence of parameters such as height, bracing arrangement and type of structural system is examined In this study it is analyzed the progressive collapse due to column removal in steel eccentric braced frames that are designed seismically according to Iranians guidelines(seismic regulations of Iranian 2800 code) with using of alternate path method and nonlinear dynamic analysis. Also in the continuation of research it is analyzed the progressive collapse due to column and brace removal simultaneously in steel eccentric braced frames and analysis the progressive collapse in moment frames and comparison of it with eccentric braced frames. Also it is evaluated the influence of parameters like number of floors, location of braces and type of connections. For this intent two structures with five and ten stories with braces in middle spans, and also two structures with five and ten stories with braces in lateral spans, one structure with five story with system of moment frames and one structure with combinatorial system of moment frames with eccentric brace which is five story in ETABS program were analyzed. Then one of outside frames for analysis of progressive collapse modeled in SAP2000 program. Results showed that remove a single column only when there is not any brace beside the removed column and simultaneous removal of columns and braces only in the last floor causing progressive collapse to the structure. Results showed that the probability of progressive collapse with simultaneous removal of columns and braces will increase when the height of the frames that middle spans is braced increases and will decrease when the height of the frames that lateral spans is braced increases. Also with comparison of eccentric braced frames and moment frames is resulted that eccentric braced frames is stronger than the moment frames against the progressive collapse. But combinatorial system of moment frames and eccentric brace in comparison with the other analyzed systems is completely resistant system.

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Water increases in slope layers induced failure of slopes. Water is the most important factor in most of the slope stability analysis. Although water does not directly lead to the slopes displacement, but is an important factor for the following reasons: (1) water increases due to rainfall and snow melt will lead to increases slope weight. (2) Water can change the angle of slope (angle of slope is an angle that slope is stable in this angle). (3) Water can be absorbed or excreted by minerals are available in the soil. After adding the water, the weight of the rock and soil increases. (4) Water can dissolve the cement between the seeds and cohesion between the seeds is lost. In this paper, the feasibility of using piles to stabilize layered earth slopes were studied. A set of physical modeling of foundations was performed adjacent to layered slopes. The deformation pattern and shear strains of soil near slope and below surcharge load were studied. For this purpose, a comprehensive set of tests and numerical analysis were undertaken on different slope models. In each step of loading, digital image of deformed soil was captured and image processing was applied with GeoPIV software for investigation of soil deformation on slope and below the footing. the effect of pile and saturated conditions effects on improvement ratio (safety factor of stabilized slope with pile / safety factor of the slope stability without piles), bearing capacity of foundations, slope stability and slip surface shape in layered slope were investigated. The results show that the slip surface of layered slopes differs depending strongly on the installed pile positions and layered saturation conditions. In consideration of the model tests and numerical analysis results, it is found that, when clayey layer was near ground surface, changes in clayey layers water content significantly affected on slip surface and layered slope stability. Consideration of slipe surface shape for different layers saturation canditions, it is found, saturation of below layers which is located below the slip surface, has not significant effects on slope stability and slip surface shape. But with increasing upper layers water content, large volume of soil were failed. Experimental and numerical results show, for stable slope before applied surcharge load or before water content increases, critical slipe surface occurred in front the installed pile. But for unstable slope, critical slip surface positions depend on layers saturation and soil properties and occurred in front or behind or in upper and lower part of pile. In general The critical slip surface location dependent on water table level conditions and location of pile. Also from the experimental and numerical results it is found, the optimum location of pile for increasing bearing capacity of foundation which is located on slope crest, is near slope crest and maximum magnitude of Bearing capacity ratio ((bearing capacity of reinforced slope/ bearing capacity of non- reinforced slope)(BCR)) was obtained when piles installed near slope crest. Also optimum location of pile for increasing slope stability are found near mid of slope. A close agreement between the experimental and numerical results in Failure mechanism and the critical values of the studied parameters is observed