Description
The question that frames this paper is whether how mistrust between Iran and the US is still dynamic in the context of the failure of JCPOA? To answer, this paper seeks to show that mistrust between the US and Iran is built on a cascading failure over many years. For this purpose, this study consists of two parts. First, the paper examines some historical events that brought these two states against each other as the historical traumatic triggers of the failed JCPOA. In fact, the significance of mistrust between these two nations is not whether there is any given beginning to it, but it is a cascading failure is that a process in which failure of one triggers the failure of another and so on. Secondly, physical and relational signs of aggression will be analysed to show that this is an ongoing trauma and therefore mistrust remains dynamic. However, this paper will conclude with a suggestion for the possibility of the future nuclear deal as an accomplished or to able to overcome the ongoing trauma by the new narratives made immediately before the JCPOA but more comprehensive. Thus, this study will also provide a better understanding of the obstacles of any rapprochement between Iran and the US that might be possible in the future.
