Iran’s ballistic missile program and its foreign and security policy towards the United States under the Trump Administration

• Mohammad Eslami ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade do Minho

     Universidade do Minho

     Braga (São José de São Lázaro), Portugal

     
• Localización: Revista española de ciencia política, ISSN 1575-6548, Nº. 55, 2021, págs. 37-62
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.21308/recp.55.02
• Títulos paralelos:
  • El programa de misiles balísticos de Irán y su política exterior y de seguridad hacia los Estados Unidos bajo la Administración Trump
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  • español

    Basándose en la teoría de la cultura estratégica, este artículo analiza el programa de misiles balísticos (BMP) en evolución de Irán, centrándose especialmente en el período de la Administración Trump (enero de 2017-enero de 2021), incluidos el derribo de un dron de vigilancia estadounidense en el estrecho de Ormuz por parte del Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica de Irán (IRGC) en junio de 2019 y el ataque de Irán a las bases militares estadounidenses tras el asesinato del general del IRGC, Qasem Soleimani, en enero de 2020. Este trabajo demuestra la creciente confianza en la narrativa revolucionaria más ofensiva, que se ha visto reforzada adicionalmente tras el asesinato del general Qasem Soleimani y del profesor Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Esto ha consolidado los aspectos de represalia en la política exterior y de seguridad de Irán, al tiempo que ha marginado a los actores moderados dispuestos a entablar negociaciones con Estados Unidos.

  • English

    Drawing on the Strategic Culture Theory, this article analyzes Iran’s evolving ballistic missile program (BMP), by focusing especially on the period of the Trump administration (January 2017-January 2021), including both Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shooting down a US surveillance drone in the Strait of Hormuz in June 2019 and Iran’s attack on the US military bases following the assassination of IRGC General Qasem Soleimani, in January 2020. This work demonstrates the increasing reliance on the ‘revolutionary’, more offensive narrative, which has become additionally reinforced after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani and Professor Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. This has consolidated the retaliatory aspects in Iran’s foreign and security policy, while it has also marginalized moderated actors willing to engage in negotiations with the US.

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