VOA常速英语2017--伊朗以间谍罪逮捕国外公民

Iranian authorities have reportedly sentenced another American citizen to a ten year prison term on charges of espionage 1.

据报道，伊朗当局又判处一名美国公民入狱十年，罪名是从事间谍活动。

A spokesman for Iran's judiciary, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi made the announcement on July 16th. The Iranian judiciary's news site Mizan later identified the American as Xiyue Wang, a Princeton University graduate student who was born in Beijing. Princeton University said the student had been doing historical research for his doctoral dissertation 2 about Iran's late Qajar dynasty, and that he had been arrested months ago.

伊朗司法部发言人埃杰希(Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi)于7月16日发表了声明。伊朗司法系统官方新闻机构米赞新闻社(Mizan)网站上随后确认美国公民王夕越为间谍。王夕越是普林斯顿大学的研究生，出生于北京。普林斯顿大学表示，这名学生一直在为博士论文做历史研究，他的博士论文与伊朗恺加王朝末年有关。而几个月前，他遭到了逮捕。

The imprisonment 3 and conviction of U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals falsely accused of crimes against national security have been an ongoing 4 and dangerous trend in Iran.

以危害伊朗国家安全为名误告美国和其他国家的公民，并对其关押定罪，这是伊朗目前盛行的危险趋势。

Despite hopes that the nuclear deal -- the Joint 5 Comprehensive Plan of Action, agreed to by Iran , the EU, and the P5 +1 countries in 2015 -- would induce Iran to become a more responsible member of the international community, Iran has continued to engage in malign 6 activity, including the arrest and imprisonment of U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals. In 2016, Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi was sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage; his eighty year-old Iranian American father, Baquer, who had traveled to Iran to help his son after his arrest, was also sentenced to ten years for the same crime.

虽然伊朗、欧盟、P5+ 1国家于2015年签订的《联合全面行动计划》核协议带来了一些希望，将伊朗拉向更负责任的国际社会成员的正轨上，但伊朗却依然一直参与在恶劣活动之中，包括拘留监禁美国和其他国家的公民。2016年，伊朗裔美籍商人西亚马克 纳马奇(Siamak Namazi)因从事间谍活动罪名被判入狱10年；其同为伊朗裔美籍的80岁父亲巴克尔(Baquer)在其子被逮捕后，前往伊朗相助，却被以同样的罪名被判入狱10年。

More victims of such unlawful behavior include Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British national, who worked for the charitable arm of Thompson Reuters, and was sentenced to five years for purported 7 security crimes; as well as free and open internet advocate Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese national and U.S. permanent resident, sentenced to prison for 10 years. These U.S. citizens and foreign nationals held by Iran vehemently 8 protest their innocence 9.

其他受到类似非法行径侵犯的受害者还有娜扎宁(Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe)，他是伊朗裔英籍公民，是汤森路透慈善部门的员工。据传，他因破坏安全的罪名被判入狱5年；此外还有倡导互联网自由公开的活动家尼扎尔 扎卡(Nizar Zakka)，他是黎巴嫩籍公民，也是美国永久居民，他也被判入狱10年。这些被伊朗拘禁的美国和外国公民声嘶力竭地证明自己的无辜。

According to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, detaining political prisoners is one of the worst human rights abuses a country can do. As she suggests, no country which engages in such behavior can have any credibility in the world.

据美国驻联合国大使妮基 海利表示，一个国家践踏人权最严重的行为莫过于拘禁政治囚犯。她表示，有这种行径的国家是不可能取信于世的。

The United States calls on the Iranian government to release all individuals unjustly held in Iran, including U.S. citizens and foreign nationals,and allow them to reunite with their families.

美国呼吁伊朗政府释放所有非法拘禁的人，包括美国和外国的公民，让他们与家人团聚。