Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Islamic Republic of Iran's security and of United States of America's interests

Shanghai Cooperation Organization which is initiated from China is an organization that seeks a positive and constructive goal to establish regional cooperation. Establishing the organization in the Caspian region with poor level of regional cooperation can creates a regional convergence. Regional cooperation issue in Caspian Sea is not on the extent and quantity of the mechanism but the quality of cooperation is speaking. Naturally, in this convergent context, regional nations will be strengthened in order to confront global challenges and threats based on continental and regional criteria. Some analysts know SCO as an instrument for China and Russia to prevent American from accessing to the vast resources of energy in the Caspian Sea. Caspian region is considered as an energy source substitute or successor by many political actors, including United States, China, Russia and EU in the future. This issue is related to its dependency to abundant oil reserves in Saudi Arabia and some other OPEC member states make it possible to speed up the exploitation of these resources to some extent. So, in fact the Caspian can become one of the strategic areas of energy in the world. While, the Caspian can be considered not only as an encountering points of great actors' interests and their regional influence but also as a plateau with high cooperation capacity. Cooperation capacity in the Caspian region is initially relates to coordination among the efforts of all countries, including geopolitical players and the coastal countries. This article investigates the importance of Caspian from the points of SCO member states' interests and United States of America on the other hand. [Mojahed Amiri, Ali shojaeefard. Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Islamic Republic of Iran's security and of United States of America's interests. Life Sci J 2012;9(4):2158-2164] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 321