The Bush administration, predictably, is pushing for new and tougher sanctions, based on an implied warning in the earlier UN Resolution, and arguing, as it did in the run-up to the invasion in Iraq, that the UN’s credibility is at stake. But the only real test of UN credibility in this conflict is whether it can succeed in restricting Iran as much as possible to a purely civilian nuclear program.
那么现在又当如何呢？人们可以预料得到的是布什当局根据先前的联合国决议中隐含的警告正在推动新的和更加严厉的制裁，而且正如其在入侵伊拉克前夕那样说联合国的信誉度与此息息相关。但是在这一冲突中联合国信誉度的唯一测定标准是它能否成功地尽量将伊朗限制到完全的民用核子项目上来。