Two Methods of Reputation Restoration and Their Components in Iran's Nuclear Program (2003-2009)

Many of International Relation and Foreign Policy scholars use concepts such as power, security or interests to describe act of actors. In the other hand, members of non-conventional stream of IR in a reaction to the main stream, effort to describe "how to constitute the concepts". But, there is a third way that describe act of actors with other concepts such as "reputation restoration". The hypothesis of the article is: "the reputation restoration is the final goal of Iran in its efforts in nuclear program". The main question of the article is the methods of the restoration. The article recognitions two processes of such a restoration: reputation restoration from shame and reputation restoration from insults and uses the components of the processes in two eras of the program.