The Influential Nature of Iran's Strategic Culture on Nuclear Proliferation

Iran's nuclear program is about recovering Persian standing, and is badly misread as a straightforward security calculation.

The assessment argues that understanding the Iranian theocracy through strategic culture materially improves collection, analysis, and policy, and that Iran's grand strategy is rooted in a divergent strategic culture shaped by specific historical events and religious jurisprudence.

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