NEW YORK – While talking to an Iranian official in Tehran earlier this year, he reminded me of Ayatollah Khomeini’s fondness for comparing the relationship between the United States and Iran to that between a wolf and a lamb. But the official went on to add his own twist, “Nearly 30 years have passed, and we are not that lamb anymore, and maybe the US is not the same wolf it once was.”
纽约&#45;&#45;今年早些时候我同一名伊朗外交官在德黑兰进行过一次交谈。他提醒我说霍梅尼喜欢把美伊关系比成狼和羊的关系。但是他接着又指出了他自己的不同意见。他说：“时间已经过了将近三十年，我们已经不再是一只绵羊，而美国也已经不再是以前的豺狼了”。他的观点就是，伊朗与美国相比不再像以前过去那样感觉深深的不平等，而且现在应该接触了。