The United States’ Containment Policy toward Iran

Abstract   The US containment policy toward Iran after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 was actually a form of controlling policy, paralleled with a form of selective interaction. The US adopted the aforementioned policy to restrain Iran’s influence, narrowing down Iran’s strategic weight in regional and international arenas and ultimately changing Iran’s political behavior and regime. What are the US containment policy’s components toward Iran? What are the regional impacts of these components on Iran? This paper claims that the US strategies to restrain Iran can be categorized into four components (1.Securitization of Iran, 2.Utilizing punitive diplomatic measures...

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