The Coercive Diplomacy: The Function of the United State's Threat to Use military Option against the Islamic Republic of Iran

While studying the interactions shaped between Iran and the United States during the three past decades, this article seeks to answer this question: Where does the use of coercive diplomacy, and its objectives and nature stand in the process of America’s foreign policy against Iran throughout the three past decades? The hypothesis in this research is that the threat to use military force on the part of the United States constitutes one of the most viable means on the international scene to exert its influence. However, the IRI’s efforts to neutralize this means has played a decisive role in corroding the U.S. hegemony, and challenging its effort to exert its power unilaterally in the international regime. T follows that the United States mobilizes all its means to make Iran’s resistance costly, and prevent it from becoming a model for other actors in the international system. Also, this article argues that Iran’s continuous success in this international struggle relies on the people’s continuing presence and preparedness as well as their spirit to resist, proper leadership and management to pursue and sustain intelligent actions, and the Armed Forces’ increased preparedness and their ability to maintain the deterrent capability. The method in this research is analytical-descriptive.