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.

The article examines the problems of ensuring national security at the domestic and regional levels of Kazakhstan and Iran, the normative documents of the two states on this issue, provides a comparative analysis of the systems of ensuring national security of the two countries, measures to combat modern threats such as radical extremism, terrorism, interethnic and interfaith conflicts, and shows the level of cooperation between our state and the Islamic republic on issues identified by the topic of the article. The authors of the article briefly analyze the foreign policy activity of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Islamic Republic of Iran in terms of an adequate response to modern national security challenges.