Abstract
On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced his decision to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal. This decision was argued to have serious consequences for the world, Iran, and the United States. By conducting a content analysis based on Chyi and McCombs’s (2004) analytic framework, this study compares the coverage of the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Iran deal in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The results show that while these newspapers had different positions regarding this foreign policy decision and its consequences, they mostly used the same frames to attack, praise, or report it. In both newspapers, Iran-related frames were marginalized, and the international frame concerned with the position of the United States in the world and among its allies was the dominant space frame. © 2020 Ariel University Press. All rights reserved.