VOA标准英语2009年-Iran's President Derides Obama and US

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has again sharply criticized US in what political analysts¹ say is bid to regain² legitimacy³

Edward Yeranian | Cairo 22 December 2009

 
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (File)

"Middle East nations would not let the United States dominate the region" -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad lashed⁴ out at the United States again in a speech Tuesday, the latest outburst in what analysts say is an attempt to regain his political stature⁵ in the wake of the popular protests that have challenged the government since the disputed presidential election.  Mr. Ahmedinejad is resorting more frequently to foreign and domestic travels in what appears to be an attempt to seek relevance⁶.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad spoke⁷ during a visit to the city of Shiraz, proclaiming that "Middle East nations would not let the United States dominate the region," and that the "era of domination by arrogant⁸ powers ... is now over."

He says that everybody should know the forces who are slaughtering⁹ people in Afghanistan today will have to leave Afghanistan, where they are far more humiliated¹⁰ than the Soviet¹¹ Union and Britain.

He also called recent accusations¹² that Iran was attempting to work on sophisticated nuclear-weapons technology "stale and tasteless," adding  the United States and Israel have more weapons than Iran.

He says that the United States has nearly 8,000 nuclear warheads and must be disarmed¹³, while Israel has about 400 nuclear warheads too, and must be disarmed.  He adds that Iran and all other nations have resisted, and will resist, until the complete disarmament of America and all the arrogant powers of the world.

President Ahmedinejad has traveled widely across Iran and abroad recently in what many analysts say is a bid to reassert his legitimacy, which was tarnished¹⁴ after the disputed election in June.  In Copenhagen, Friday, he told reporters that tyranny exists in many places, and few complain.

He says western governments are not worried about democracy and they have no concern about freedom, because many governments do not have elections and do not have freedom and they are not criticized.

Dr. Mehrdad Khonsari of the London-based Center for Arab and Iranian studies says Mr. Ahmedinejad is ratcheting up his rhetoric¹⁵ as hopes for a nuclear deal with the West fade. "He knows that the window of opportunity for him to come up with any kind of diplomatic breakthrough is almost up, and that is why his rhetoric is increasing, as hopes of him reaching some kind of solution is fading ...," Khonsari said.

There has been growing discussion by Iran analysts in recent weeks about how solid the Iranian president's grip on power still is, but Khonsari thinks Mr. Ahmedinejad remains¹⁶ in control, despite the challenges. "He has a lot of problems inside Iran.  People do not recognize his legitimacy.  He is not worried about that.  Whether he is greeted by 5,000 people or 50,000 people, he is trying to say 'I am in charge.'  The fact is, he does control all the levers of power that are up to him to control," he said.

Scott Lucas of the University of Birmingham in Britain, who is behind the popular Iran blog "Enduring America," thinks Mr. Ahmedinejad is fighting for his political survival and that quarrels in the regime have forced him to go it alone. "I think, at the broader level, the question whether this is a regime strategy is a most interesting one.  In other words is the supreme¹⁷ leader and other officials putting Ahmedinejad forward in this way?  My opinion is no.  There has been a lot of tension between the Supreme Leader and Ahmedinejad and between Ahmedinejad and other officials since June ...  I think rather than this being a regime strategy, Ahmedinejad is trying to turn this into his own personal survival," he said.

Lucas believes President Ahmedinejad and supreme leader Ali Khamenei have wrangled¹⁸ over political power and control over key ministries¹⁹ since the June elections and that the powerful Revolutionary Guard has backed the president over the ayatollah in key instances.

"In the ministry²⁰ of intelligence, there were a number of high level officials who were sacked and the argument is that Ahmedinejad and the Revolutionary Guard were able to get their people in at the top of the ministry.  The supreme leader, in a sense, lost that battle against Ahmedinejad, and has been able to reassert himself against the president in recent weeks.  The question I cannot answer is what is the relationship between the president and the Revolutionary Guard, now?," Lucas said.

Meir Javedanfar of the MEEPAS Center in Tel Aviv does not believe the Iranian president has major problems with the supreme leader, but does have problems with the Iranian public and the opposition²¹ Green Movement. "I think when it comes to his relationship with the supreme leader, his position is very strong, but when it comes to other people, especially the moderate conservatives, he has got serious problems, and when it comes to the opposition, the reformist movement, his problems are mounting every day," he said.
 

1 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。

2 regain   

vt.重新获得，收复，恢复

参考例句：

• He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
• The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。

3 legitimacy   

n.合法，正当

参考例句：

• The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
• Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。

4 lashed   

adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The rain lashed at the windows. 雨点猛烈地打在窗户上。
• The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy. 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 stature   

n.（高度）水平，（高度）境界，身高，身材

参考例句：

• He is five feet five inches in stature.他身高5英尺5英寸。
• The dress models are tall of stature.时装模特儿的身材都较高。

6 relevance   

n.中肯，适当，关联，相关性

参考例句：

• Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles.政治家的私生活与他们的公众角色不相关。
• Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.她的想法与现代社会完全脱节。

7 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

8 arrogant   

adj.傲慢的，自大的

参考例句：

• You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
• People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。

9 slaughtering   

v.屠杀，杀戮，屠宰( slaughter的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The Revolutionary Tribunal went to work, and a steady slaughtering began. 革命法庭投入工作，持续不断的大屠杀开始了。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史
• \"Isn't it terrific slaughtering pigs? “宰猪的！ 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

10 humiliated   

感到羞愧的

参考例句：

• Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present. 子女在客人面前举止失当，父母也失体面。
• He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated. 他感到羞耻，丢尽了面子。

11 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

12 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

13 disarmed   

v.裁军( disarm的过去式和过去分词 )；使息怒

参考例句：

• Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。
• The swordsman disarmed his opponent and ran him through. 剑客缴了对手的械，并对其乱刺一气。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 tarnished   

（通常指金属）（使）失去光泽，（使）变灰暗( tarnish的过去式和过去分词 )； 玷污，败坏

参考例句：

• The mirrors had tarnished with age. 这些镜子因年深日久而照影不清楚。
• His bad behaviour has tarnished the good name of the school. 他行为不轨，败坏了学校的声誉。

15 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

16 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

17 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

18 wrangled   

v.争吵，争论，口角( wrangle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• They wrangled over what to do next. 他们就接下来该干什么而争吵。 来自辞典例句
• They wrangled and rowed with other passengers. 他们与其他旅客争辨吵闹。 来自辞典例句

19 ministries   

（政府的）部( ministry的名词复数 )； 神职； 牧师职位； 神职任期

参考例句：

• Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
• The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。

20 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

21 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。