%0 Journal Article %T THE POLITICAL EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN NATIONAL POWER %J POLITICAL QUARTERLY %I %Z 1735-9678 %A Karimifard, Hosein %A Bineshfar, Alireza %D 2020 %\ 03/20/2020 %V 50 %N 1 %P 271-287 %! THE POLITICAL EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN NATIONAL POWER %K Entropy %K Geopolitical Weight %K Multi-criteria decision-making compensatory %K Nuclear Energy %K Security %R 10.22059/jpq.2020.235597.1007078 %X National power is the capability of a country to use its own resources in an optimized way with the aim of exerting its will and national interests. An increase in power of competition and the sphere of influence of any country in the world is the result of upgrading the national power components. It seems intelligent approach to the sources of power like nuclear technology causes a production of national power, geopolitical weight and an improvement in sphere of influence and global standing of Iran. It also causes a jump in solving political and geopolitical challenges of Iran. Ranking the national power of different governments of a country facilitates their cognition, clears national interactions and helps people with making national goals true and also protecting national interest. This research has an analytical and explanatory attitude and uses a method of measuring national power and also uses a multi-criteria decision-making compensatory to answer the question of whether acquiring nuclear technology in the studied intervals had led to an improvement in political component of national power or not? The results confirm this thoughtful approach. %U https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_76892_a73c1f43f7b5b03b6380dda79bd1dc94.pdf