摘要：Preserving territorial integrity is one of the vital ideas of any governments. As the Safavid dynasty took power in Iran, Iran's territorial integrity, which had previously been seriously threatened by domestic and foreign claimants, …. To consolidate their sovereignty, the Safavid rulers needed to define and solidify the elements that highlighted their differences from other countries, while establishing internal unity based on shared characteristics. In their sub-discourses, they introduced their value system, which included Shiism and Iranian nationality with several provinces within their territories, redefined another concept, and presented a way of survival based on other concepts by emphasizing differences in religion, nationality, language, culture, and so on. Accordingly, by employing discourse analysis from Ruth Wodak's perspective and focusing on the two basic notions of "self versus the other" and "survival," the present study aimed to analyze Iran's territorial integrity during this period and examine the features of this discourse.
