One of two things will happen: either tighter containment of Iran through sanctions on oil exports will produce positive results and weaken Iran, or containment will fail, leading the US inexorably toward a new war in the Middle East. It is not unlikely that some in US foreign-policy circles regard the deepening Iraqi crisis as a building block in constructing the case for military intervention in Iran.
对以石油出口制裁为手段牵制伊朗将产生积极效果并削弱伊朗，或者牵制手段失败，让美国不得不在中东开展，两者必居其一。或许美国外交政策圈中有人把伊拉克危机的深化视为军事干预伊朗的借口。