Explaining the Representation and Nuclear Case Decision-Making Strategies in the Neo-Fundamentalis Discourse of Ahmadinejad

There has been a significant relationship between the rise and fall of the Iranian Nuclear Case and the Role-based Identity in the discourse of the dominant foreign policy. The formation of this identity, influenced by both the internal level, especially the mental constructs, individual, value, and psychological characteristics of foreign policy agents as well as on the outside level. From this perspective, the components of Ahmadinejad discourse's identity affected by internal norms and their relation with the structure of the international system, representation of the Nuclear Case in a format appropriate to its identity, and then the representation of the strategy guide for decision-making Nuclear Case. Accordingly, the primary goal of the current study is to answer this question: How the role-based identity in Ahmadinejad discourse represents Nuclear Case and strategies for making decision are advised? According to constructivism and descriptive-analytical methods, research results have shown that Nuclear Case was introduced as an ontological security issue during Ahmadinejad presidency and based on the psychological and value approach of cybernetic strategies and prospects for decision making about it.