چكيده فارسي :
Iran’s nuclear program was a challenging international dispute for more than a decade. In the last two years before its settlement, world powers (members of United Nation’s Security Council and Germany named 5+1 countries) and Iran were actively engaged in negotiations to find a solution for this long-lasting problem. Eventually, after two years of intensive discussion, they reached an agreement deal on the framework of Iran’s nuclear activities. The two sides of the dispute praised this agreement as a Historic Deal; however, each side depicted it in line with its own interests. Given the international importance of nuclear issue, this paper examined how the final step of this long and tedious process of conflicts and negotiations (i.e., agreement deal) was presented and interpreted in the discourse of U.S. president (Barak Obama) whose country played a pivotal role in the negotiations. Grounding the study on the school of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) as the theoretical foundation, the researcher analyzed the statement made by Obama regarding the announcement of the nuclear deal on July 14, 2015. Drawing on Frairclough’s (1992) approach to CDS, the statement was scrutinized from three perspectives of Textual, Discursive, and Sociocultural analyses. The findings of the study showed that U.S president introduced the deal as a victory for America and its allies. In fact, Obama relied on a dichotomy of Self (U.S and its allies) and Other (Iran), and accordingly, applied the macro-strategy of Self-Legitimation in order to promote Americans’ national identity and reproduce the ideology of representing United States as the most powerful country and the leader of the world.
