Abstract
In Iran, the parliament, as a legacy of the Constitutional Revolution, is the center of gravity for politics and decision-making on national issues. Therefore, given the status of the parliament, this body can supervise and have a vote on various issues, including political, cultural, economic, and social. One of the most important issues that the Islamic Consultative Assembly faced after its formation was the eight-year Iraq-Iran war, which is considered the longest war of the twentieth century. The purpose of this study is to analyze the cultural positions of the representatives of the second term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly regarding the Iraq-Iran war based on the method of content analysis and with an emphasis on the method of theme analysis. Therefore, based on the detailed discussions of the second term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the article seeks to answer the question: What positions did the representatives of the second term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly take regarding the Iraq-Iran war in the cultural field?
The findings of the article show that with the start of the imposed war of Iraq against Iran, the representatives, in line with the values and Islamic culture stemming from the Islamic Revolution, sought to encourage people to resist, maintain unity, preserve the effects of the war, and encourage the culture of jihad.
Keywords: Positions, Islamic Consultative Assembly, Members of Parliament, War, Cultural Positions.
 
Introduction
From institution through which efforts were made to pursue Islamic values was the Islamic Consultative Assembly. The Islamic Consultative Assembly is one of the main pillars of the Islamic Republic system, as stated in Article 71 of the Constitution: "The National Consultative Assembly can enact laws on general issues within the limits set forth in the Constitution." On the other hand, given that the transfer of powers to the National Consultative Assembly - which became the Islamic Consultative Assembly after the establishment of the Assembly It could have effectively formalized the political system, and political forces were trying to participate in the parliamentary elections.
The elections for the second parliament of the Islamic Consultative Assembly were held in a situation where the Iraq-Iran war had entered its fourth year. The elections for this parliament had some differences from the previous parliament, the most important of which was the criterion for the acceptability of individuals in this period. The most obvious characteristic for the acceptability of individuals was their belief in Islam, the revolution, and their popular nature. As a result of such a move, a number of political groups opposed to the revolution, who were prevented from participating in the elections for the second parliament, chose two options: they started armed conflict, or they threatened to boycott the elections, or they refused to participate in the elections due to lack of motivation.
The second parliament was inaugurated in a situation where the Iraq-Iran war that had begun in Shahrivar 1970 was still ongoing in the country. Therefore, one of the most important duties of the representatives was to adopt a cultural approach commensurate with the prevailing values regarding the aforementioned war.
Accordingly, this article attempts to answer the main research question by using the method of content analysis, which is what positions the representatives of the second term of the National Consultative Assembly had in the cultural field regarding the imposed war of Iraq against Iran. To answer this question, the detailed second term of the negotiations of the Islamic Consultative Assembly was examined in order to extract the pattern of the cultural positions of the representatives in these documents.
 
Materials and Methods
Content analysis is a common method of qualitative content analysis used by researchers in various fields, including history, political science, sociology, literature, art, and economics.
In thematic analysis, the researcher extracts and codes important topics from the text, hence it is referred to as a recursive movement in which there is a backward and forward movement between different stages of the work.
The main element in this method is the theme, which is considered the most valuable unit in this method and should be addressed in content analysis. Themes are actually specific meanings that are derived from a sentence or paragraph. A sentence may contain several themes, and the opposite is that a long paragraph can contain only one theme. Therefore, content analysis can be used as a method to identify, analyze, and express patterns within data. In addition, the method has the ability to organize data, describe it in detail, and
interpret different aspects of the research topic.
 
Discussion and Results
With the victory of the Islamic Revolution, cultural changes in line with the principles of the Islamic Revolution were considered necessary by the revolutionary forces. The effort was to eliminate Western values that were not in line with Islamic values and replace them with religious values in order to implement and implement their desired cultural model. Accordingly, the implementation of Iranian-Islamic, indigenous cultural values and the negation of Western cultural values were determined as the main cultural orientation of the country during the first decade after the revolution. This process was accompanied by ups and downs in these years, which ultimately led to a critical attitude towards traditional values on the one hand and towards Western and modern values on the other, and this provided a platform for further reflection on indigenous values.
In line with other institutions, the Islamic Consultative Assembly and its representatives tried to highlight religious and Islamic values in the form of themes in their speeches and to guide the people and fighters during the eight-year war. To this end, the representatives sought to encourage the people to resist, maintain unity, preserve the effects of war, and encourage the culture of jihad, in line with the Islamic values and culture originating from the Islamic Revolution.
 
Conclusion
According to a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the negotiations of the second term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, 13 organizing themes were extracted around the comprehensive theme of "Cultural positions of the representatives of the second term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly towards the imposed war on Iran by Iraq", including: the need to pay attention to the people, to address the families of the martyrs, the need to reflect the news of the Iraqi crimes, to encourage the culture of jihad, the need to preserve and reflect the effects of the war, to reflect the importance of the liberation of Khorramshahr, the need for the presence of the representatives of the Assembly and other officials on the fronts. It should be added that the themes of "Necessity of addressing and improving the situation of war refugees" with 29 frequencies, "Necessity of maintaining unity" with 17 frequencies, and "Islam is the obstacle to arrogance" and "Imam Khomeini's leadership is the key to victory" each with 8 frequencies received the attention of the representatives more than other themes.