America’s drive to force Iran to stop its nuclear program through an ineffective sanctions regime has been no more successful than any of its other schemes to isolate the region’s extremists. Indeed, the US has now completely reversed its position of not negotiating with Iran until it stops uranium enrichment.
美国通过一个无效的制裁机制迫使伊朗停止其核计划的企图，和试图孤立该地区的极端主义者的其它计划一样，都不成功。事实上，美国现在完全改变了在伊朗停止其铀浓缩活动之前不与它谈判的立场。