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By Gary Thomas
Washington
11 January 2006

Iran has incurred 1 international displeasure for its decision to resume work on its controversial uranium enrichment program. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the matter is likely to be taken to the U.N. Security Council, a move long pushed by the United States.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  
  

Several countries, including the United States and Russia, have expressed dismay over Iran's decision to break the seals at a nuclear research facility and resume work on its uranium enrichment program. But Iran remains 2 undeterred. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran will continue seeking what he termed peaceful nuclear energy, and reiterated 3 that Iran does not seek to build nuclear weapons.

Analysts 5 believe that there is in fact a deliberate strategy behind Iran's defiance 6 of world sentiment on its nuclear program. Kenneth Katzman, an Iran analyst 4 at the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, says each step Iran takes is designed to gauge 7 world reaction and see just how far it can go.

"I think that they're pursuing what I call a stepwise approach," he said. "They take a step, see what the reaction is. If they don't get sanctioned or they don't get very seriously punished, then they declare the issue closed and move on up the ladder, up the staircase, so to speak."

In the belief that Iran's ultimate goal is a nuclear weapon, the United States has been trying to line up world support to bring the matter before the U.N. Security Council and possibly impose sanctions on Iran.

Gary Sick, a former staffer on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford 8, Carter, and Reagan, says the threat of sanctions does not amount to much because there would be no consensus 9 among council members for strong action - and Iran, he says, knows it.

"If you tried to put sanctions on Iran's production and sale of oil, you would raise the price of oil," he said. "Even assuming you could do that, you would take X-number of barrels of oil off the world market and the price would skyrocket. And so it's difficult to see what would be done to Iran other than a sort of generally worded slap on the wrist sort of thing. And then once you've done that, what have you got left? After that, you have military options, and they certainly aren't attractive for the United States or anybody else."

Sick, now teaching international relations at Columbia University, believes there will eventually be a negotiated settlement between the West and Iran on the issue that acknowledges Iran's right to nuclear energy, but under very strict international controls. However, he says tensions are likely to continue for some time.

"But I do think the tensions are going to be very, very high for a period of time, and there is certainly going to be a growing danger of miscalculation, either on the part of Iran, which is pushing the envelope probably further than they should, and with the other countries, who feel that they have to react to that," he said.

But analysts add that there appears to be internal displeasure that recent statements by hardline President Ahmadinejad are hardening international sentiment against Iran. The new president, who was elected in June, has called for the destruction of Israel and denied the Holocaust 10 ever occurred.

The Congressional Research Service's Kenneth Katzman says senior Iranian leaders fear the president's statements are undercutting Iran's one-step-at-a-time nuclear strategy.

"I think the Iranian top leadership believes these type of statements are injuring what was a fairly successful strategy of pursuing a nuclear program without really paying much of a penalty," he added. "But now these statements have made it much easier for the U.S. to persuade other nations to try to restrain Iran's nuclear programs."

Gary Sick agrees, saying there are behind-the-scenes efforts to rein 11 President Ahmadinejad in.

"I think there's no question whatsoever 12 that internally, without a lot of fanfare 13, the leadership of Iran is letting Ahmadinejad know in no uncertain terms that this is very dangerous and it's very harmful to Iran," he said.

Sick points out that President Ahmadinejad was effectively undercut when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a political rival who lost the presidential race to Ahmadinejad, was appointed head of the Expediency 14 Council, which mediates 15 between the elected parliament and Iran's unelected Islamic clerical leadership. And, Sick notes, President Ahmadinejad has had great difficulty in getting some of his cabinet appointments ratified 16 by the Majlis, or parliament.



[医]招致的,遭受的; incur的过去式
  • She had incurred the wrath of her father by marrying without his consent 她未经父亲同意就结婚,使父亲震怒。
  • We will reimburse any expenses incurred. 我们将付还所有相关费用。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • 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。
反复地说,重申( reiterate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • "Well, I want to know about it,'she reiterated. “嗯,我一定要知道你的休假日期,"她重复说。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • Some twenty-two years later President Polk reiterated and elaborated upon these principles. 大约二十二年之后,波尔克总统重申这些原则并且刻意阐释一番。
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗
  • He climbed the ladder in defiance of the warning.他无视警告爬上了那架梯子。
  • He slammed the door in a spirit of defiance.他以挑衅性的态度把门砰地一下关上。
v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器
  • Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗?
  • It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
n.(意见等的)一致,一致同意,共识
  • Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗?
  • What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么?
n.大破坏;大屠杀
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
n.疆绳,统治,支配;vt.以僵绳控制,统治
  • The horse answered to the slightest pull on the rein.只要缰绳轻轻一拉,马就作出反应。
  • He never drew rein for a moment till he reached the river.他一刻不停地一直跑到河边。
adv.(用于否定句中以加强语气)任何;pron.无论什么
  • There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
  • All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样,你就怎样对人。
n.喇叭;号角之声;v.热闹地宣布
  • The product was launched amid much fanfare worldwide.这个产品在世界各地隆重推出。
  • A fanfare of trumpets heralded the arrival of the King.嘹亮的小号声宣告了国王驾到。
n.适宜;方便;合算;利己
  • The government is torn between principle and expediency. 政府在原则与权宜之间难于抉择。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency. 在公正与私利之间很难两全。 来自辞典例句
调停,调解,斡旋( mediate的第三人称单数 ); 居间促成; 影响…的发生; 使…可能发生
  • We therefore investigated whether hypercoagulability mediates a beneficial effect during denovo atherogenesis. 因此我们研究了高凝在原位动脉粥样硬化形成中是否介导了有益的作用。
  • Not happy when the mood that how mediates oneself? 不开心的时候怎样调解自己的情绪?
v.批准,签认(合约等)( ratify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The treaty was declared invalid because it had not been ratified. 条约没有得到批准,因此被宣布无效。
  • The treaty was ratified by all the member states. 这个条约得到了所有成员国的批准。
学英语单词
accompushments
amplitude ratio-phase difference instrument
anisamide
antigedades
backbar
bashing on
bearing indication
beauvallon
boiling-water
Brevibloc
camp sheeting
candle stick
card reeler
CEW
clearing of accounts
client priority
communistled
compeed
compression of light pulse
couseranite
data flow
Dexasine
disgraciously
disprisoning
Dixonian
eat right
ecbasis
entraining plume
equity share
facultative anaerobes
family therapeutics
febris rubra
floating channel
flotation column
flys
fucko
fund remittance and transfer
gangrenous stomatitis
germylidenes
gingival separator
high energy level pile
hour-hand
human skin
impulsive neurosis
indeprehensible
indifferent air mass
insurance-relateds
intragastrically
Inverness capes
jolliment
k homogeneous grammar
kawamoto
Khvosh Maqām
lagopodous
landing over obstacle
leveraged contract in foreign exchange
Machupicchu
make sail
marine seepage
mechanical friction
midflow
nephometer
Nitropotasse
non-scene
nonlinear deformation
not good enough to
nucleolform
oletimol
ottey
P-anisidine value
phlordzinize
Ponchon-Savarit diagram
Pontchartrain, L.
precisionists
radio sensor
real-value item
recessing-tool
reduction cell
reverting
rotating cylinder (pneumatic)
sandcloth
Sap-flow
sclerospora miscanthi
scorner
secondary focusing
sell for
semi-direct fired pulverizing system
SI batch file service
snipe fish
South Whittier
stealthie
stock base
subapical initial
thomisidae
tire-pressure gauge
towell
twisting(cleland 1949)
Upper Voltans
water-sop
winter moth
XRE
zappily