The more publicly the West threatens Iran, the more easily Iranian leaders can portray America as the Great Satan to parts of the Iranian population that have recently been inclined to see the US as their friend. The net effect is to keep Iran speeding down the road toward a crash.
西方越是公开威胁伊朗，伊朗领导人就越容易在那些最近倾向于视美国为友的伊朗人面前将美国人描述成邪恶的撒旦。而两者叠加之下的净效应就是伊朗在通往碰撞的路上不断加速。