One does not need to look hard for Iran’s reasons for testing the limits of international tolerance: to redeem the humiliations of the Mosaddeq era and beyond; to demonstrate superior technological prowess to the region and the wider world; and to make clear to the Western powers – whose perceived double standards abandoned Iran to Saddam Hussein’s chemical warfare in the late 1980’s – that it would not compromise on its “right” to enrich uranium under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
伊朗不断试探国际社会底线的原因其实很明显：为被CIA推翻的前总理默罕默德·莫兹安迪福报仇；为了向整个中东以及全世界展示自己不凡的科技实力；还要向那些在两伊战争期间执行双重标准，纵容萨达姆使用化学武器的西方势力表明——自己不会放弃在核不扩散框架下提炼铀的“权利”。