Publication

This paper addresses Iran’s nuclear strategy and explains that the main nuclear debate in the country’s leadership concerns what form of nuclear capability Iran should possess. According to this paper, a group associated with former secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Hasan Rowhani agrees with enabling Iran to construct a limited nuclear arsenal. Opponents of this idea, supported by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i, want a larger, industrial-scale nuclear capability. The paper discusses Rowhani’s assessment of Iranian strategy, the debate over the choice of strategy as well as Iran’s military options against the US.