Events and Evaluation of Leaders’ Belief Change (The Case of Barack Obama and 11th Presidential Election in Iran)

Political leaders reprocess the information related to situation based of their cognitions, and then come to a perception of their situation. However beliefs usually resist in confronting to change, but the change may take place by different factors like occurring of an outside event. In this article we are going to evaluate such a change in beliefs of American current president Barack Obama and we want to know if his beliefs has changed after 11th presidential election in Iran or not. The hypothesis, which we test with operational code theoretical framework and by VICS method, is that his beliefs change only partially and unremarkable, but toward more optimism and cooperation. Without considering the reasons of change, the results based of the methods we acquired, confirm our hypothesis.