Iran’s confrontation with the UK and the US is part of the much broader saga of the West’s use of its military and economic dominance to project its power and political will over much of the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today’s low- and middle-income countries are only now entering a period of true sovereignty.
伊朗与英国和美国的冲突是一个含义更加广泛的局面的一部分，即19和20世纪期间西方利用其军事和经济主导力将其实力和政治意愿凌驾于世界大部之上。如今的中低收入国家大多直到最近才进入真正的主权时代。