Analysis of the content of the threats attributed to the Islamic Republic of Iran in the American strategic documents during the years 1991 to 2021

After the Islamic Revolution of Iran, the goals and capabilities of the United States directly and indirectly affect Iran, which can be seen in the analysis of the five categories of strategic and national security documents of the United States at the macro level that have been published over the years is, obtained Good observation. From this procedure, this research is an analytical description of the type of case study that examines the topic under consideration with the method of analysis and qualitative analysis. The statistical population of this research includes 42 official documents and one temporary document of American national security, which was published by the government in 2021. In examining these documents, what becomes certain is that the United States has changed its strategy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran in all these years, which has always been the overthrow of this system to change This performance is more or less evident in America's foreign behavior. The approaches of the American presidents during the presidential periods of Bush Sr. and Clinton were mostly based on soft power and, of course, to some extent hard, Bush Jr.'s period was mostly based on hard power and to some extent also soft, Obama's period was based on the application of smart power, a combination of hard and soft. Trump's era is based on hard power and Biden's era that we are facing today is based on soft and intelligent power.