POLS 157 Chapter Notes - Chapter NA: What the Iran-Iraq War Tells Us About the Future of the Iran Nuclear Deal, Tabatabai & Samuel: President Of Iraq, International Isolation, Defensive Realism
18 Feb 2020
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What the iran-iraq war tells us about the future of the iran nuclear. Since 1979 islamic revolution that transformed iran, washington has viewed iran with fear and confusion: pressing national security for us to prevent weaponization of iran"s nuclear system. Iranian perspectives must be analyzed to see how their decision-making processes and policy outputs. Effect of the iran-iraq war is often ignored or under analyzed. Iran"s security policy is rooted in defensive realism, that sees world as a self-help system that is fundamentally anarchic, and states must worry about their survival: their main objective lies in survival. Vulnerability and isolation in the self-help system after the revolution led iran to pursue weaponization of its nuclear capabilities. Iran"s nuclear program was well underway before the revolution, with the support of the. Supreme leader khomeini viewed it as a waste of resources and abandoned it. Iraqi president saddam hussein was a threat to iran"s power.
