Iran and the United States: the Negative Cycle of Construction and Continuation of Nuclear Dispute

It’s been a decade since Iran's nuclear program sparked a dispute between Iran and world powers and was brought into focus of scholars, politicians, world public opinion and international institutions. The importance of understanding this dispute to deal with it in an appropriate manner is manifested in the massive volume of research and reports written on it as well as a considerable amount of resolutions and declarations issued by the two sides and international institutions such as the United Nations Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Many scholars and experts have expressed their views on the shaping of the dispute and how it should be treated, from different perspectives. However, there is no independent research on why this dispute has lasted for a decade. This article has been compiled to meet this shortage. This article tries to highlight how relations between Iran and the U.S. have led to the continuation of Iran's nuclear dispute. The main hypothesis of this article is that the continuation of Iran's nuclear dispute is rooted in "negative cycle of construction" in Iran-U.S. relations. With this cycle, the U.S. ultimate goal in this dispute is dismantling Iran's nuclear program.