the objective of this paper is to provide an overview of various approaches on iran’s nuclear program and the frameworks within which the approaches can be located. it first addresses different views held in relevant think tanks and academic circles in the u.s. regarding iran’s nuclear program, including motivation-based and consequence-based arguments in their different variants. then iranians...

Deception is an inseparable facet of political discourse in attaining strategic gains though compromising public opinion. However, the employment discursive deception strategies by policy-making institutions think tanks has not received due attention literature. The current study aims at exploring how ideologizing are utilized conservative American tank Washington Institute to reproduce socio-p...