Though the deal does slow Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, it does not restrain – or even address – the regime’s hegemonic ambitions in the region, for which it has already spent billions of dollars and suffered crippling sanctions. As a result, the framework agreement is creating strategic chaos in an already dysfunctional region.
最近的伊朗核计划框架协议起到了相反的效果。尽管该协议确实延缓了伊朗核武器的开发，但它并不约束——甚至不遏制——伊朗政权的地区霸权野心。为了这一野心，伊朗投入了数十亿美元，还遭致了令其损失惨重的制裁。结果，该框架协议正在已经混乱不以的中东地区创造战略动荡。土耳其、埃及和沙特阿拉伯（已经与巴基斯坦在核方面展开紧密合作）等地区力量未来拥有临界（threshold）核能力的可能性大增。