Ramin Rastegar; aliasghar mohammadpor
Volume 5, Issue 18 , December 2021, , Pages 1-34
Abstract
The US Missile Defense Plan Establishment Effects on Middle East as a vital energy region has been done with the aim to maintain and keep hegemony in the western hemisphere. So, US, ...
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The US Missile Defense Plan Establishment Effects on Middle East as a vital energy region has been done with the aim to maintain and keep hegemony in the western hemisphere. So, US, using balance off-shore balance strategy and alliance and coalition with Middle East region actors seeks to I.R. Iran, as a potential regional hegemon, harness and control through the missile defense shield. In this respect, US in addition of creating missile defense shield in Turkey, has taken the actions to improve air defense capability of Persian Gulf Countries. Selling Patriot system to four Persian Gulf Arab countries, and sending "X-BAND" radars to and other air defense equipment to Zionist regime are some of US actions. So, this paper is supposed to apply "aggressive realism theory" to examine US Missile Defense Plan Establishment Effects on Middle East and Iran reactions against. The paper is to answer the question that what's the goal of US Missile Defense Plan Establishment on Middle East and how had effected the Iran's power. This paper examine this hypothesis: US missile defense shield is established to maintain and keep the US regional hegemony and harness and control of Iran's military and missile power in Middle East.
