It worked well in the United Nations General Assembly last September, when he had something solid to offer – a deal on his country’s nuclear program – raising hopes that Iran’s hardline foreign-policy stance would finally soften. But UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s withdrawal of Iran’s invitation to the Geneva II conference on Syria suggests that Rouhani will need more than charm – or even a visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Tehran – to end his country’s isolation.
伊斯坦布尔—伊朗总统鲁哈尼的魅力攻势陷入了瓶颈期。去年九月，鲁哈尼的魅力攻势在联合国大会上大放异彩，当时他可以提供实实在在的东西——关于伊朗核计划的协议——让人们认为伊朗的强硬外交政策立场终于要软化了。但联合国秘书长潘基文没有邀请伊朗参加关于叙利亚问题的日内瓦II会议，这表明鲁哈尼需要更多的魅力——甚至需要土耳其总理埃尔多安访问德黑兰——来结束伊朗的孤立。