NEW YORK – As world powers meet in Geneva to begin nuclear talks with Iran, the world awaits the follow-up to the phone call between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and US President Barack Obama after Rouhani’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly last month. That brief conversation – the first between the two countries’ presidents since 1979 – recalls the last attempt to revive bilateral diplomacy, undertaken 12 years ago by Iran’s then-President Mohammad Khatami.
纽约—在世界各个大国赴日内瓦与伊朗展开核谈判之际，世界翘首等待着伊朗总统鲁哈尼和美国总统奥巴马在鲁哈尼上个月访问联合国大会后的后续通话。联大上的简短对话——这是1979年以来两国总统的首次对话——让人想起了上一次恢复双边外交关系的努力。那是在12年前，伊朗总统是哈塔米。不论是这一次还是上一次，美国和伊朗都没有握手，这说明了双方的裂痕之深。