Try Patience With Iran
William D. Hartung
July 12, 2006
William D. Hartung is the director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute.
To no one’s surprise, yesterday’s deadline for Iran to freeze its nuclear enrichment program in exchange for negotiations over potential economic and technological incentives passed without an agreement. On Monday, Ali Larijani, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, told European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana that any negotiations would be a “long process.”
Considering the fact that Iran had already indicated it has no plans to respond to the proposal before mid-to-late August, the insistence of the six powers involved in the talks on setting deadlines that require Tehran to answer within a matter of weeks seems puzzling, to say the least. Do the six interlocutors—Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia, and the U.S.—really want to give diplomacy time to work? Or are hardliners like the Cheney faction of the Bush administration lurking in the background trying to scuttle serious talks between the U.S. and Tehran before they even get started?
Despite this week’s developments, there are still avenues available for genuine diplomacy, if Washington chooses to pursue them within a reasonable time frame.
The first obstacle that needs to be overcome if talks are to move forward is the U.S. demand that it will engage in talks with Tehran only after the Iranian leadership agrees to freeze all uranium enrichment activities. A more logical and effective way to spur negotiations would be to proceed on a step-by-step basis, beginning with a U.S. agreement to speak directly with Iranian leaders.
Iran has plenty of reasons to resist putting its main bargaining chip on the table before it has any indications of changes in U.S. behavior. As Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials have asserted on numerous occasions, the military option is "still on the table" with respect to Iran's nuclear program. It has not been made clear whether military action means conventional air strikes on Iranian facilities, or efforts to overthrow the regime through covert means, or the extreme step of using a tactical nuclear weapon to target Iran's nuclear installations.
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搭配：try patience with sb. 对某人保持耐心
扩展：lose patience with sb. 对某人失去耐心
exhaust one's patience 耗尽某人的耐心
文中用了3次in exchange for 以。。换取。。。
address 做动词，意思是处理
文中用了3次in exchange for 以。。换取。。。
address 做动词，意思是处理
in exchange for 这个词组在05年考研第一篇阅读理解中出现过，是高频词组
文中用了3次in exchange for 以。。换取。。。
address 做动词，意思是处理
address 动词，还可以表示＂对某人发表演讲＂，
The first obstacle that首先阻碍的原因是
strikes on打在。。。。上，撞。。。。上
tactical nuclear weapon战术核武器
[em13][em13]只来总结一点点:
[+]"终止，冻结一项活动，工程"的几种说法总结：(以nuclear enrichment program为例)
freeze/suspend/halt/abandon/give up/drop/stop/end/terminate nuclear enrichment program
e.g.To no one’s surprise, yesterday’s deadline for Iran to freeze its nuclear enrichment program in exchange for negotiations over potential economic and technological incentives passed without an agreement.
e.g. The UN Security Council [official website] Wednesday agreed on a statement demanding that Iran immediately suspend its nuclear enrichment program.
e.g.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program but won’t halt uranium enrichment ahead of talks, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Sunday.
e.g.The first time since the Iran hostage crisis 27 years ago, the United States has agreed to negotiate with Iran, if the country abandons its nuclear-enrichment program.
e.g.Ahmadinejad vows not to give up nuclear program(title)
e.g.Iran has no option to drop its nuclear enrichment program despite strong sanctions from the US, Iranian Foreign Minister said Tuesday.
e.g.It appears Iran is refusing to stop its nuclear enrichment program, are the major powers likely to believe Tehran is really serious about negotiations?
e.g.Germany, Russia, and China have separately offered a package of commercial incentives aimed at persuading Iran to end nuclear enrichment.
e.g.This means President Bush needs to push the EU-3 to agree upon a deadline by which Iran must forswear and terminate their enrichment program or risk being hauled before the UN Security Council.
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朝鲜，伊朗这些所谓的无赖国家都想通过核武器来换取经济利益ecomomic incentive/interests/benefits
e.g.Secondly, the US is no longer looking at Korea simply in a politico-military relationship. It looks at Korea as an opportunity for maximizing its economic interests.
e.g.The North Korean offer to swap their military might in exchange for economic benefits echoed a similar proposal three months ago by President Bush.
具体点就是经济援助了economic aid/assistance/help/support
e.g.North Korea agreed at six-country talks in September to dismantle its nuclear weapons programs in exchange for economic aid.
e.g.In the agreement, North Korea committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing programs in exchange for economic assistance and security assurances.
e.g.North Korea proposes disarmament in exchange for economic help.
e.g.Only dialogue and economic support can overcome the crisis.
谈判，会谈
talks/forum/negotiation
只来总结一点点:
[+]"终止，冻结一项活动，工程"的几种说法总结：(以nuclear enrichment program为例)
freeze/suspend/halt/abandon/give up/drop/stop/end/terminate nuclear enrichment program
e.g.To no one’s surprise, yesterday’s deadline for Iran to freeze its nuclear enrichment program in exchange for negotiations over potential economic and technological incentives passed without an agreement.
e.g. The UN Security Council [official website] Wednesday agreed on a statement demanding that Iran immediately suspend its nuclear enrichment program.
e.g.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program but won’t halt uranium enrichment ahead of talks, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Sunday.
e.g.The first time since the Iran hostage crisis 27 years ago, the United States has agreed to negotiate with Iran, if the country abandons its nuclear-enrichment program.
e.g.Ahmadinejad vows not to give up nuclear program(title)
e.g.Iran has no option to drop its nuclear enrichment program despite strong sanctions from the US, Iranian Foreign Minister said Tuesday.
e.g.It appears Iran is refusing to stop its nuclear enrichment program, are the major powers likely to believe Tehran is really serious about negotiations?
e.g.Germany, Russia, and China have separately offered a package of commercial incentives aimed at persuading Iran to end nuclear enrichment.
e.g.This means President Bush needs to push the EU-3 to agree upon a deadline by which Iran must forswear and terminate their enrichment program or risk being hauled before the UN Security Council.
[+]dismantle nuclear program :
e.g.Iran will never prepare to dismantle nuclear program entirely.
谈判，会谈
talks/forum/negotiation
carry on negotiation with sb
<中文> 与某人进行谈判
[em04]难~啃!