Iran's Nuclear Program and Its Impact on the | ||
| The Arab Gulf | ||
| Article 9, Volume 42, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 230-264 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Asst. Lect. Wijdan Falih Hassan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The Iranian nuclear program forms large disputable program internationally and regionally, because this program constitutes a major threat to the states of Arab Gulf and to the region alike (this is according to point of views of Arab and the U.S.A.). It is not secret to observers know what Tehran wants from this program, that is to reform its role again in the region, which was very much affected by the U.S. spreading in the Gulf War II and the occupation of Iraq in 2003, and the impacts of these wars in strategic balance malfunction by the presence of direct military forces, whether in Qatar, the UAE, or Kuwait, and previously in Saudi Arabia. Depending on this contentment, Iranian leadership has sought from the beginning to adjust the scales of justice in the region, and respond to weapons programs and the Gulf large military spending, in order to confront the great threat to their vital role in areas. So it aimed to make this program to be the vital weapon in the face of these international ambitions on one hand, and the boundaries growing danger or the enemies in the region such as (Israel), so it sought with all its power to develop its nuclear program to become the weapon that haunts the competitors and enemies alike, and alter power balance in the region. | ||
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