When Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hinted that Iran could play the oil card, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed the idea. “Let’s just remember that Iran is some 80% dependent on oil in its budget,” she said, so it is “not really able to live with a disruption.”
当最高领导人哈梅内伊暗示伊朗将会打石油牌时，美国国务卿赖斯并不相信他的说法。“别忘了伊朗大约80%的预算要依赖石油，”她说，所以如果它“中断石油供应的话它根本无法生存下去。”