VOA常速英语2007-US Imposes Sanctions on Iranian Revolutionary Gu
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA常速英语（十月）
State Department
25 October 2007
The United States has imposed wide-ranging new sanctions against Iran in a further effort to pressure Tehran to halt nuclear activities seen as weapons-related. Targets of the new sanctions include the Iranian defense 1 ministry 2 and the Revolutionary Guards Corps 3. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.
The measures announced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Treasury 4 Secretary Henry Paulson are the most severe against Iran to date, and mark the first time that the United States has targeted another country's military for sanctions.
The sanctions package, which had been under consideration for months, includes measures aimed at isolating 5 three of Iran's biggest state-owned banks - Banks Melli, Mellat and Saderat - for involvement in weapons proliferation or financing terrorism.
Iran's defense ministry and the Revolutionary Guards Corps are also being sanctioned for proliferation activity, while the elite 6 branch of the guards corps - the Quds Force - is being penalized 7 for providing material support to terrorist groups including Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
At a joint 8 press event with her Treasury counterpart, Secretary Rice said the sanctions were prompted by Iran's refusal to heed 9 international demands that it drop what she termed its "unwise campaign" for a nuclear weapons capability 10.
Rice said an offer to Iran for civil nuclear power assistance and diplomatic benefits remains 11 on the table if it gives up its pursuit of a nuclear fuel cycle.
"If the Iranian government fulfills 12 its international obligation to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, I will join my British, French, Russian, Chinese and German colleagues and I will meet with my Iranian counterpart anytime, anywhere," she said.
"We will be open to the discussion of any issue. But if Iran's rulers choose to continue down a path of confrontation 13, the United States will act with the international community to resist these threats of the Iranian regime," she added.
The sanctions forbid U.S. citizens or companies from doing business with any of the targeted Iranian institutions and freeze any assets they may have in banks under U.S. jurisdiction 14.
Senior administration officials acknowledge that Iranian entities 15 like the Revolutionary Guards are unlikely to have any assets directly vulnerable to the sanctions.
But Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism Stuart Levey told reporters the blacklisting of major Iranian banks by United States for terrorism and proliferation links will be a powerful incentive 16 for other banks and governments to cease doing business with them.
"When we take action in this kind of way and identity individual entities or even individual people who are engaged in specific illicit 17 conduct, financial institutions around the world do listen," said Levey. "They do not want to do business with these people. They do not want to do business with people who are proliferators. They do not want to do business with people who are terrorists."
The sanctions announcement came against a background of toughening rhetoric 18 from the Bush administration about Iran, including a warning by Vice 19 President Dick Cheney earlier this week of serious consequences if it continues its present course.
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said the parties are still in the middle of a diplomatic process and that the United States does not see conflict with Iran as either inevitable 20 or desirable.
"This decision today supports the diplomacy 21, and in no way, shape or form does it anticipate the use of force," he said. "The president has never taken that option off the table, and quite rightly so. But we are clearly on a diplomatic track and this initiative reinforces that track."
Burns said he hopes the U.S. move will give new impetus 22 to efforts in the U.N. Security Council for a third sanctions resolution against Iran, which he said is six months overdue 23.
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
- When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
- The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
- This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
- Colour filters are not very effective in isolating narrow spectral bands. 一些滤色片不能很有效地分离狭窄的光谱带。 来自辞典例句
- This became known as the streak method for isolating bacteria. 这个方法以后就称为分离细菌的划线法。 来自辞典例句
- The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
- We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
- You will be penalized for poor spelling. 你拼写不好将会受到处罚。
- Team members will be penalized for lateness. 队员迟到要受处罚。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
- For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
- She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
- Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- He always fulfills his promises. 他总是履行自己的诺言。 来自辞典例句
- His own work amply fulfills this robust claim. 他自己的作品在很大程度上实现了这一正确主张。 来自辞典例句
- We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
- After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。
- It doesn't lie within my jurisdiction to set you free.我无权将你释放。
- Changzhou is under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.常州隶属江苏省。
- Our newspaper and our printing business form separate corporate entities. 我们的报纸和印刷业形成相对独立的企业实体。
- The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities. 北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。
- Money is still a major incentive in most occupations.在许多职业中，钱仍是主要的鼓励因素。
- He hasn't much incentive to work hard.他没有努力工作的动机。
- He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
- Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。
- Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
- Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
- Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
- The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
- The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
- This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
- This is the primary impetus behind the economic recovery.这是促使经济复苏的主要动力。
- Her speech gave an impetus to my ideas.她的讲话激发了我的思绪。