From Strategic Similarity to Tactical Differences: Iran and the 2020 US Presidential Election

The competition of candidates has always influenced the US presidential election in explaining domestic and foreign policy issues and providing solutions to overcome the crises ahead. During the election campaign in foreign policy, several issues were raised. These include threats from Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran's Islamic Republic. In the present article, the issue of Iran in the 2020 US presidential election has been examined in two levels: strategic imagery and tactical approaches. The question of the present study is, “what were the similarities and differences between the two sides on the issue of Iran?” In response to this question, the following research hypothesis is proposed. In Biden and Trump's campaign policies at the level of strategic explanation, Iran is in a similar situation in terms of being at the macro level of security threats, but at the level of tactics and methods of dealing, Trump seeks to score points all at once in the form of pressure policy. It was maximal, and Biden sought to take advantage of transatlantic multilateralism and gradual and gradual scoring by criticizing Trump's approach. The data collection method in the present study is documentary and the analysis method is descriptive-descriptive.