Some believe that in the years after the Islamic Revolution, their preservation and dignity in foreign policy took precedence over national interests, and through this, national interests have sometimes been neglected. However, it should be noted that this level of attention and dignity can be derived from the "strategic culture of status-seeking" of Iranians. In fact, this has not necessarily been the case after the Islamic Revolution, but for centuries in Iran's interaction with the outside world, which can be called the Safavid era as one of the first manifestations of the experience of strategic culture of status in contemporary Iranian foreign policy.
 Despite the extensive research conducted by domestic and foreign scholars on the history of Safavid Iran, it can be boldly acknowledged that the scope of Safavid studies is unique among different periods of Iranian history and new dimensions every day. Makes intellectual, cultural, artistic, civilizational, religious, social, political, economic ... issues.
 
Therefore, the present article, using the analytical concept of "dignity seeking" and with a historical approach and descriptive-analytical method, seeks to prove the hypothesis that concepts other than gaining "power" and "security" such as "dignity seeking" with three components of "limitation" Voluntary in conflicts "," priority of identity "and" status seeking "has the ability to explain Iran's foreign policy during the reign of Shah Abbas Safavid?

Keywords: Foreign policy, dignity, self-imposed constraint on conflict, identity and status quo

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