The Concept of Stereotyping In the process of any interaction between persons of different nationalities, gender, and race, people tend to construct certain images between themselves and others based on their socio and demographic differences. In fact, the association of one group with some certain characteristics that are inferior or negative not based on facts but misconceptions and prejudices amounts to stereotyping. This hinders the integration of people based on their perceived differences. More interactively, from the perspective of socio-psychology, stereotyping involves the features with which people use when referring other people. In fact, Major et al. (1998, p.34) refer stereotyping as “the pictures that people have in their heads about other groups.” For instance, when people encounter a violent individual from a certain nationality, they may spread the news that all people belonging to the same nationality as the person are violent. This kind of generalization hinders diversity besides leading to stigmatization, discrimination not withstanding. This being an example of negative stereotypes, positive stereotypes may also be harmful since they truncate into limitation of attitudes of people towards a group or groups of people. The concept of stereotyping is based on three fundamental aspects. These are traits, concepts, and antecedents (Ángel, 2002, p.255). Antecedent involves feelings of being rejected or accepted at an individual level. Such feelings influence people’s behavior. On the other hand, concepts involve the customs that a person has concerning the stereotypes that other people outside his/her group have towards his/her people, region, religion, and culture (Vorauer, Main & O’connell, 1998, p. 917) to mention a few. This implies that people who are stereotyped presume that the version of beliefs held against their intergroup is justifiable from the basis of the impressions held by other people as opposed to out-group stereotypes. Lastly, the traits of stereotypes are contextual components, behavioral components, and cognitive components. Brief History of Iran: The Path towards its Nuclear Program The path leading towards the nuclear program in Iran was not a one-day decision. This means that it is characterized by Iran’s historical chronology. The program was initiated in the 1950s with the European governments and the U.S. taking central roles. It was part of the program of atoms for peace. The involvement of these two parties did not proceed for long since it was terminated in 1979 when the Shah of Iran was toppled by the Iranian revolution. In the mid 1980’s, Khomeini regime brought up the idea for a nuclear program in secret. The plans also encompassed making preparations for acquiring the capacity to produce nuclear weapons initiated during the Shah reign. Many political scholars immensely believe that this move was initiated by Iran’s devastation that was inflicted by Iraq due to the moves of Iraq to deploy chemical weapons in the war between the two nations. In 1990, Iran endeavored to develop her own nuclear power for the mining of uranium and its processing. A portion of this energy was also scheduled to be utilized in the production of large amounts of water for the production of plutonium. Still in the same ye