Possible U.S. Strike on the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) in Persian Gulf: Strategies for Counteraction

The animosity of West arrogant system led by U.S.A. and the Zionist regime against the IRI will be sustained in the future in such a way that the antagonistic soft, semi-soft and if possible hard measures against the IRI will be on their table. The coming war will be the result of knowledge and experience intensity during the history which has contemporarily reached its zenith in respect of knowledge, pace, precision and destruction. One of the effective variables in the coming war is the strategies for countering the enemy which is rooted in the potency, environmental conditions, friends and allies, military knowledge and experience and the conditions of the enemy with her related allies. Due to being in the U.S. interest sphere along with those of her European and regional allies, the presence of her naval fleet and sustainable conflict between U.S. marines with those of the IRI, vitality for the IRI's national security as well as for regional and global security, the battlefield of Persian Gulf is more potential for such a conflict. Accordingly, conducting studies to achieve the appropriate strategies for such a counteraction could highly help us in the possible war. The present study is an applied one in type which is conducted upon descriptive- analytic and case-field methods. The population and sample of the study includes 61 who have been selected upon full-counting. In this study, using the theoretical principles and the related literature, the internal and external factors are extracted and by means of SWOT and SPSS, the primary strategies are explored and then by QSPM, the strategies are promoted and sequenced. In the final stage, out of 11 combined strategies six strategies are prioritized for counteraction and the next five ones are set in the subsequent preferences of policy-making.