A Study of the Measures of the Strategy of Deterrence Based on Iran 20-Year Outlook Document and Its Effects on Securing the National Security

Iran’s position of being situated in the Middle East and the multifarious threats posed by the United States and Israel have caused the issue of providing security to turn into a critical issue for the Iranian authorities. The main question in this relation is “What measures have Iran’s deterrence strategy been grounded on in order to counter such threats, and how has it been functioning so far? To answer the above question, the main hypothesis addresses the role played by deterrence in meeting the country’s security by examining its most important measures in two aspects of deterrence, namely traditional and missile. So, the library method is used. The findings of this research indicate that despite all the efforts made to alienate Iran and arms embargo against it, this strategy has managed to counteract the military threats against Iran, hence these threats have come to have a software dimension in addition to the hardware dimension.