According to NPR the region of Islamic Republic of Iran has become a very important place of attention for U.S.A for its redesigned strategy, which has become a combination of nuclear and conventional components, with conventional long-range precision-strike weapons functioning in a "strategic" context.
While it might be too dramatic to suggest that the Iran effectively replaces the Soviet Union as the central targeting requirement for sizing and configuring the U.S. strategic deterrent, it seems clear that regional contingencies will assume a more prominent role in the nation's nuclear strategy.
This paper will examine the implications of Nuclear policy of Iran and its strategy in the Middle East, framing NPR implementation in the context of theoretical literature surrounding the role of nuclear weapons in deterrent and coercive political strategies. The paper will also highlight policy challenges facing the United States as it seeks to use the reconfigured strategic deterrent as a means to promote its interests and achieve its objectives in this volatile region.
History:
The Nuclear program of Iran traces its origin from the Shah’s Era, the plan was to build 20 nuclear power reactors.
Two of them were in Bushehr, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, which were destroyed during the Iran Iraq war before its completion. Work was started on a modest base again after the revolution in 1979. The current nuclear plan consists of construction of 15 power reactors and two research reactors.
In the regime of Shah Research and development efforts were also conducted by the Shah's regime on fissile material production, although these efforts were halted during the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war.
The head of the current program is the President the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the head of the Defense Industries Organization, and the head of.......
