Positioning Iran as a state developing nuclear technologies in the continuing nuclear bipolar system of international relations makes it possible to transform the Iranian-American interaction to the level of parity subject-subject contact. This kind of interaction is reinforced by Iran's special economic position as a fuel powerhouse, which accounts for at least 10% of the world's total oil reserves and ranks second in the world in terms of natural gas reserves. If, according to the principles of the "axis of evil" doctrine, Iran poses a threat to US national interests, then the overall positioning of Iran as a regional political, economic and military center of power makes it possible to fix Iranian-American relations at the level of a curtailed conflict, which does not imply an open armed confrontation between the parties. The structure of political activity includes a number of basic elements. First, these are different types of political actors that interact with each other within the framework of general communication, represented in the form of a "power-subordination"system. Based on this type of communication, these actors are divided by status into subjects and objects of power-subordinate interaction. Secondly, the structure of political activity includes the goals of politics: domestic and foreign policy. Third, it includes the means and tools to achieve political goals. Since social and political systems differ from mechanical systems in their substantial multidimensionality and discreteness of their development, as well as in the irreversibility of the processes occurring in them, within the framework of the political process, there is a constant change of roles, a change in the positioning of subjects and objects in relation to each other. As a result, the foreign policy process can go both along the line of subject-subject parity interaction, and along the line of mirroring the first variant of subject-object interaction. Any political institution is n ... Read more