USA Psychological Operations Troops for Nuclear Program of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD student, Department of Iranian Issues, Islamic Azad University, Shahreza Branch, Shahreza, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Shahreza Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran (corresponding author).

3 Full Professor, Department of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Psychological operations are the practices of power in the age of modern international actions, which are used in the construction of numerous issues, especially Iran's nuclear program, a critical issue in the strategic environment of the Islamic Revolution and its related unnecessary trends. The study seeks to identify psychological operations for the Nuclear program by US -based institutions. Also, the research is applied, and in terms of the type of research, descriptive -analytical whose information has been developed by relying on documentary and library collection and using quantitative content analysis method with kiosque technique. The main question of the present article is what mechanisms and mental operations have used Iran's nuclear program? To answer the above question, the paper hypothesis has been formulated that the US psychological operations for Iran's nuclear program were validation, persuasion, accusation (subject -making) of Iran and neutralization (ineffective). Is . The findings of the article suggest that the US soft war institutions utilize persuasion and validation systems during the approval of nuclear agreements and accusation (subject) and neutralization (ineffective) (ineffective). It has had the progress of soft threats and security processes on the issue of nuclear activities of the Islamic Republic of iran.

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