Russia and the Security Council in Iran's Nuclear Case

Over the last decade, Iran’s nuclear case has been an important issue for all great powers. However, the approach and position of Russia particularly in consideration of this issue in the Security Council, due to historical and technical atomic cooperation with Iran compared to other players in the case has been more important than anything else. The approach, position and the aims of Russia in the investigation of Iran’s nuclear case in the Security Council especially in the case of passing resolutions against Iran have had a remarkable impact on the outcome of the issue. Therefore, this paper based on the assumption that national interests have played a steering role in the formation of Russia’s positions and acts, seeks to recognize what factors have been influential in Russia’s positions in the period of passing are solution against Iran by Security Council. In response to this question, we hypothesize that Russia’s impressions of Iran’s nuclear program and its interaction and competition with Iran and America with the dual approach of controlling and balancing, due to exerting pressure on Iran’s nuclear developments and also to moderate west pressure on Iran have caused Russia to prevent America’s military action. In this paper, to investigate and evaluate different aspects of this hypothesis, qualitative methods such as data collection and inter view as well as investigation of documents and Security Council resolutions will be employed.