Withdrawal of the United States from JCPOA and Confronting the Deterrent Strategy of the Islamic Republic of Iran

This study seeks to answer this question: what grounds and reasons can be given for the withdrawal of the United States from the nuclear deal. Without examining the contexts and factors that influence the decisions of US foreign policy, it is impossible to trace the US withdrawal from JCPOA and start of  an economic war against Iran. This article takes advantage of “James Rosina’s theory of continuity.” Rosina, who is a representative of the combination of two levels of micro and macro analysis in theoretical models of analyzing foreign policy behaviors, believes that in examining and analyzing foreign policy of each country, we must pay attention to five categories of main variables: individual, role, government, society and finally international system. The findings of this study on the withdrawal of the United States from JCPOA and the confrontation with Iran’s asymmetric deterrence strategy show that although the central sign of this phenomenon is Trump’s individual and personality variable, other variables, despite direct impact on US foreign policy towards Iran, have largely emerged as intermediate, stimulating and influential opportunistic factors in the context of Trump’s personality conditions.