Résumé:
This research examines the covert ideology and power relation incorporated by the
President of the United States of America Barak Obama and the Iranian foreign minister
Mohammed Javad Zarif in their political speeches about Iran’s nuclear deal 2015. Based
on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the analysis is mainly performed
through Transitivity system, Modality and Textual analysis. Furthermore, the analysis is
based also on Norman Fairclough´s assumption in critical discourse analysis, claiming
that “ideologies reside in text” that “it is not possible to read off ideologies from text”,
and that “texts are open to diverse interpretations” (Fairclough, 1995). The analysis
leads to the conclusion that the ideology of both leaders resides in their beliefs,
conviction, assertion and ambition to settle this long and strenuous nuclear conflict by
signing the deal in Geneva 2015.
