Bush’s war, with its poor strategic vision and worse planning, increased Iran’s regional standing in a way that the country was unlikely ever to have achieved on its own. The war enabled Iran to assert itself as the dominant power in the Gulf and the wider region, and its nuclear program serves precisely these ambitions.
布什的战争因其蹩脚的战略眼光和糟糕的计划从某种意义上提升了伊朗的区域地位，这种提升伊朗靠自己的力量永远不可能做到。战争使伊朗成为海湾及更大范围内的主导力量，而核计划恰恰满足了伊朗在这方面的野心。