One, certainly, is that Europe – or, more precisely, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France – has been engaged in the talks with Iran for more than a decade. Even as former President George W. Bush branded Iran a part of an “axis of evil,” the key European Union members insisted that diplomacy was better than war.
许多因素都在起作用。当然，其中之一是欧洲——或者准确地说是英国、德国和法国——与伊朗谈判已逾十年。在小布什总统将伊朗列为“邪恶轴心”之前，欧洲关键成员国便已认定外交是比战争更好的办法。