نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
The aim of this study is to examine the security, strategic, economic, and geopolitical challenges faced by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the context of nuclear diplomacy on the international stage. The research employs a descriptive-analytical method and draws upon the theory of structural realism. It appears that international politics has centered its behavior on countering Iran’s nuclear capability development, resulting in economic restrictions, international pressures, and security confrontations with Iran. The balancing behavior of international actors aimed at limiting Iran’s national power and nuclear capability is primarily exercised through diplomacy and multilateral policies of major powers. The coalition of transnational actors represents one of the realities of international politics, manifesting in the strategic rationality of cooperative engagement among major powers as they interact competitively to constrain peripheral actors. This dynamic is generally based on indicators of balancing behavior, participatory action, multilateral cooperation, and regional balancing. Iran’s nuclear diplomacy challenges have been shaped by elements of U.S. coercive diplomacy, European balancing strategies, and structural cooperation with China and Russia. Such a process indicates that the structure of the international system employs relatively unified tools, institutions, and motivations for constraining Iran. International institutions often serve as effective tools for implementing coercive diplomacy against regional actors. President Trump’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) did not elicit any practical response from influential global actors to restrain the United States’ unilateralist mechanisms. This process reflects the reality that international politics functions predominantly as an effective instrument for major powers to limit the capabilities and resistance of regional actors. The prolonged stagnation of the JCPOA reflects the reality that the United States’ compliance with norms has not materialized, even under President Joseph Biden’s administration, leaving Iran confronted with uncertainty and geopolitical ambiguity.
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