IRAN'S ASSERTIVENESS IN MAINTAINING ITS PEACEFUL NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY: FOREIGN EFFECTIVENESS AND DOMESTIC EFFICIENCY

Yıl 2005, Cilt: 10 Sayı: 3, 127 - 151, 01.09.2005

Hossein Seıfzadeh

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In the early December 2005, increasing evidences emerged in favor of the confirmation of the hypothesis of this paper which stipulates that the political elites of the Islamic Republic feels compelled to play an assertive game in its bid to maintain “the glorious achievement in peaceful nuclear technology” apparently as an indispensable necessity to redress its already fractured legitimacy back home: to show its effectiveness in tackling Iran's nuclear policy effectively and demonstrate the technological efficiency. This assertive foreign policy has instead generated claimed/and or actual security concerns amongst their counterparts in EU-3, Israel and the US regarding the intentions of Iran to maintain benign peaceful nuclear technology/or else divert it to a nuclear weapon.