Citation: Begum, S., Saeed, R., & Khalid, M. M. (2020). Nuclear efforts of Iran under the shadow of US sanctions. Global Security and Strategic Studies Review, V (III), 60-67. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2020(V- III).07 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2020(V-III).07 p- ISSN: 2708-2121 e-ISSN: 2708-3616 L- ISSN: 2708-2121 DOI: 10.31703/gsssr.2020(V-III).07 Pages: 60 – 67 | Vol. V, No. III (Summer 2020) Sajida Begum * | Robina Saeed † | Muhammad Munib Khalid ‡ Iran has started the Atom program for Peace which has already planned by the US for countries concerned in consuming atomic energy for non-violent devotions. Iran also decided to develop a nuclear program to generate electricity. In 1979 US and the west has temporary banned the project. The United States has applied these sanctions on Iran for various purposes. This includes weakening domestic support for the Islamic regime and, recently, imposing charges on Iran to continue its nuclear program. These sanctions have left Iran with local and foreign capital, and have isolated it economically and politically. However, the regime has survived and continues to challenge the international community. Iran has also made great strides in nuclear planning. This article aims to explain how the Iranian’s survived despite international sanctions specially the US. It rebuilds the interaction between the contraction of sanctions by the UN Security Council, the United States and targeted regime strategies to promote the nuclear program and maintain cohesion within the choice. Key Words: Iran, Nuclear efforts, US Sanctions, isolated, UN Security Council. Introduction Iran is a typical geopolitically sensitive region of potential average power in a stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf. The region has been of particular interest to major international players for more than two centuries and is therefore very sensitive to changes in the nature of the international political system. As a country crossing two forms of water, Iran's political fate, foreign policy decisions and freedom of independence have been strongly influenced by westerns and US. In the new configuration of the system, Iran as a state with a common border of 1,500 miles from the Soviet Union has gained even greater geopolitical importance. Consequently, ability to use military force as a policy tool against countries in the vicinity of one another was severely restrained. “They also often refrained from putting undue pressures on such countries, lest they turn to the competitor”.Marschall, 2003). The Iranian belief that the Persian Gulf is a Persian lake, which means Iran is the main coastal power, stems from the time of Ahmdinejad hegemony over the Middle East. In the third century AD, according to the Iranian historic memory, the Sassanid king Ardeshir restored the Persian Gulf and its shores, which in the meantime had been raided by Arab tribes, to Iranian sovereignty. He also sent an army into Bahrain and left his son Shahpur I as replacement. The Portuguese entered the Persian Gulf in 1507 and occupied many Persian islands and cities. Under Shah Abbas (1587– 1629), the Portuguese were expelled and Bahrain, Bandar Abbas, Qishm and Hormuz restored to Persian sovereignty. Shah Abbas’ successors were unable to hold Persian power over the region. Bahrain and several Iranian islands were seized by the ruler of Oman. It was only under Nader * Assistant Professor, Minhaj University Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. † Chairperson, School of Mass Communication, Minhaj University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. ‡ Lecturer, Minhaj University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Email: munibkhalid@mul.edu.pk Nuclear efforts of Iran under the shadow of US sanctions Abstract