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“Soft power” in recent decades is an integral part of the foreign policy arsenal of a number of states. Including various tools, “soft power” as one of the most effective tools used to achieve goals, includes education. In the current conditions of a multipolar world, all large states, as well as their associations, seek to use education as a means of influence on their counterparties. The examples of China and the European Union examines and analyzes the mechanisms used by actors in pursuing a policy of “soft power” through education.

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Kazakhstan and the Islamic Republic of Iran are two states that have common sea borders through the Caspian Sea, two friendly neighbors, successfully developing both bilateral cooperation and cooperation at the regional and international level. The relevance of this study is that today it is advisable to study the foreign policy of not only world powers, but also ‘non-knowing’ countries in order to determine the scenario for the development of relations between the two countries. The purpose of the article is to analyze and evaluate the geostrategic features of the interaction of Kazakhstan and Iran in the regional and global aspects. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the analysis method, which allowed to study the history of relations between Kazakhstan and Iran at different stages. This article attempts to determine the geostrategic features of the interaction between Kazakhstan and Iran in the regional and world aspect analyze and evaluate their bilateral relations.