The role of leaders in formulating Iran's nuclear policy from Ahmadinejad to Rouhani

This study is an initial attempt to investigate the role of Iran’s leaders in the way of formulating nuclear policy. The Iranian role of leaderships reflected the nation’s history as a revolutionary state, as an Islamic regime the policy result was also a product of revolutionary policies particularly on its nuclear. It can be seen that previous leaders have shaped nuclear policy in a different direction, reflect to their background and style of leadership. The thesis then examines about the nuclear policy under its different type of leadership, start
from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005) to Hassan Rouhani (2013). The thesis also identifies what is shifted of Iran nuclear policy under new leadership. Data for this study were collected through content analysis method and mainly will use data research about newspaper report, dialogue, talk and speeches from both Ahmadinejad and Rouhani and also government policy on the nuclear Iran issue to be analyzed. At the end, it was concluded that there are significant shifts towards Iran nuclear policy from confrontational to cooperative policy. These data also support the views that there are also major changes in the relationships of Iran with the other nuclear country, counted from Ahmadinejad era to Rouhani.