A relação entre Estados Unidos e Irã: da Revolução Iraniana a 2009

Abstract

The present work aims to understand how the Iranian Revolution and the decisions made in each of the United States’ presidential mandates impacted the relationship between the United States and Iran in the years between 1979 to 2009. In it, the American foreign policy is analyzed, not only from the aforementioned period, but also from a historical perspective so that we can understand how the construction of its values and goals took place. In addition, this paper analyzes the Iranian Revolution itself to understand the changes it has brought to its country. For this, presidential speeches and academic texts are used to find out the real impacts of these two factors on the relationship between United States and Iran. Thus, based on bibliographic and documentary methodological procedures, in addition to the qualitative character and hypothetical-deductive and comparative methods, it was concluded that the American policies taken from the changes arising from the Iranian Revolution had great impacts on the relationship between the two countries that have gone from allies to adversaries in the international system. This change can be translated by strong economic sanctions as well as the United States’ aggressive speeches to Iran.