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Explaining the Performance and Objectives of the US Policy of Maximum Pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran

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    • Alireza Samiee 1
    • Mohammad Hossein Kamali 2

    1 Associate Professor of Political Science, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran

    2 Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran

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Document Type : Research Paper

10.30479/psiw.2023.17262.3112
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Objective: Since the election campaign, Donald Trump has introduced the JCPOA as a disastrous agreement for the United States, and after winning the 2016 presidential election and entering the White House, he accused the country of violating the JCPOA despite extending the suspension of sanctions on Iran. For Trump and his national security team, the JCPOA was an incomplete agreement that did not include Iran's missile program and regional policy. Therefore, the United States, after withdrawing from the JCPOA, tried to exert maximum pressure on Iran by restoring the sanctions related to the nuclear program and imposing additional sanctions. With this description, the aim of the leading research is to examine and explain the functioning, mechanism and goals of the maximum pressure policy of the United States during the Trump era, towards the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Method: The research method is a qualitative type of causal explanation and the method of collecting the required data is library as well as written sources and virtual space.
Results: Based on the findings of the research, the United States during Trump's presidency, through maximum "security" aimed at re-representing Iran as a major source of "threat", which this time included all of Iran's actions and introducing these actions as a threat to international peace and security, to apply maximum pressure against Iran. In other words, to legitimize the policy of maximum pressure against Iran, Iran's actions should be presented as an international threat. Based on this, the maximum security of the United States had three fundamental axes, which were: Iran's nuclear program, missile program, and regional policy.
Conclusion: Considering the different and heterogeneous positions of the audience of this policy, it can be said that this fact has been noticed and acknowledged by the West itself that the maximum pressure policy of the Trump administration has failed in practice and that diplomacy and agreement are the best way to deal with Iran.
 

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  • United States of America
  • Iran
  • Maximum Pressure Campaign
  • Securitization
  • Middle East
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Samiee, A. and Kamali, M. H. (2022). Explaining the Performance and Objectives of the US Policy of Maximum Pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran. Political studies of Islamic world, 11(2), 105-127. doi: 10.30479/psiw.2023.17262.3112

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Samiee, A. , and Kamali, M. H. . "Explaining the Performance and Objectives of the US Policy of Maximum Pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran", Political studies of Islamic world, 11, 2, 2022, 105-127. doi: 10.30479/psiw.2023.17262.3112

HARVARD

Samiee, A., Kamali, M. H. (2022). 'Explaining the Performance and Objectives of the US Policy of Maximum Pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran', Political studies of Islamic world, 11(2), pp. 105-127. doi: 10.30479/psiw.2023.17262.3112

CHICAGO

A. Samiee and M. H. Kamali, "Explaining the Performance and Objectives of the US Policy of Maximum Pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran," Political studies of Islamic world, 11 2 (2022): 105-127, doi: 10.30479/psiw.2023.17262.3112

VANCOUVER

Samiee, A., Kamali, M. H. Explaining the Performance and Objectives of the US Policy of Maximum Pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran. Political studies of Islamic world, 2022; 11(2): 105-127. doi: 10.30479/psiw.2023.17262.3112

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