Khatami’s proposal for a “dialogue among civilizations” in 2000 was an attempt to open a crack in what he described as the wall of mistrust that continued to separate Iran and the US. It was only in the last year of his second term that Clinton made a serious effort to respond to Khatami.
哈塔米2000年提出的“文明间对话”方案是在他所谓的持续分离伊朗和美国的不信任之墙上凿开一条缝隙的尝试。在他第二个任期的最后一年，克林顿才认真地回应了了哈塔米。但哈塔米没有哈梅内伊的支持，后者坚决反对前者的改革。