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The American Rhetorical Construction
of the Iranian Nuclear Threat
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The American Rhetorical
Construction of the Iranian
Nuclear Threat
Jason Jones
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgements viii
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Introduction: Executive Power, the Press, and Iran 1
Chapter 2 The United States Versus Iran: Stasis Theory and
De> ning the Nuclear Debate 28
Chapter 3 Controlling the Discourse: Interviews with
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 59
Chapter 4 Verbal Tug-of-War: An Interview with the Enemy 83
Chapter 5 The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate : A Visual
Analysis of News Coverage 109
Chapter 6 Before World War III: Discourse Studies and
Social Change 141
Appendix A Excerpt from Interview on ABC’s This Week with
e Stephanopoulos and Peter Jennings 150
Appendix B