VOA常速英语2017--伊朗以间谍罪逮捕国外公民

Iranian authorities have reportedly sentenced another American citizen to a ten year prison term on charges of espionage¹.

据报道，伊朗当局又判处一名美国公民入狱十年，罪名是从事间谍活动。

A spokesman for Iran's judiciary, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi made the announcement on July 16th. The Iranian judiciary's news site Mizan later identified the American as Xiyue Wang, a Princeton University graduate student who was born in Beijing. Princeton University said the student had been doing historical research for his doctoral dissertation² about Iran's late Qajar dynasty, and that he had been arrested months ago.

伊朗司法部发言人埃杰希(Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi)于7月16日发表了声明。伊朗司法系统官方新闻机构米赞新闻社(Mizan)网站上随后确认美国公民王夕越为间谍。王夕越是普林斯顿大学的研究生，出生于北京。普林斯顿大学表示，这名学生一直在为博士论文做历史研究，他的博士论文与伊朗恺加王朝末年有关。而几个月前，他遭到了逮捕。

The imprisonment³ and conviction of U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals falsely accused of crimes against national security have been an ongoing⁴ and dangerous trend in Iran.

以危害伊朗国家安全为名误告美国和其他国家的公民，并对其关押定罪，这是伊朗目前盛行的危险趋势。

Despite hopes that the nuclear deal -- the Joint⁵ Comprehensive Plan of Action, agreed to by Iran , the EU, and the P5 +1 countries in 2015 -- would induce Iran to become a more responsible member of the international community, Iran has continued to engage in malign⁶ activity, including the arrest and imprisonment of U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals. In 2016, Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi was sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage; his eighty year-old Iranian American father, Baquer, who had traveled to Iran to help his son after his arrest, was also sentenced to ten years for the same crime.

虽然伊朗、欧盟、P5+ 1国家于2015年签订的《联合全面行动计划》核协议带来了一些希望，将伊朗拉向更负责任的国际社会成员的正轨上，但伊朗却依然一直参与在恶劣活动之中，包括拘留监禁美国和其他国家的公民。2016年，伊朗裔美籍商人西亚马克 纳马奇(Siamak Namazi)因从事间谍活动罪名被判入狱10年；其同为伊朗裔美籍的80岁父亲巴克尔(Baquer)在其子被逮捕后，前往伊朗相助，却被以同样的罪名被判入狱10年。

More victims of such unlawful behavior include Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British national, who worked for the charitable arm of Thompson Reuters, and was sentenced to five years for purported⁷ security crimes; as well as free and open internet advocate Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese national and U.S. permanent resident, sentenced to prison for 10 years. These U.S. citizens and foreign nationals held by Iran vehemently⁸ protest their innocence⁹.

其他受到类似非法行径侵犯的受害者还有娜扎宁(Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe)，他是伊朗裔英籍公民，是汤森路透慈善部门的员工。据传，他因破坏安全的罪名被判入狱5年；此外还有倡导互联网自由公开的活动家尼扎尔 扎卡(Nizar Zakka)，他是黎巴嫩籍公民，也是美国永久居民，他也被判入狱10年。这些被伊朗拘禁的美国和外国公民声嘶力竭地证明自己的无辜。

According to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, detaining political prisoners is one of the worst human rights abuses a country can do. As she suggests, no country which engages in such behavior can have any credibility in the world.

据美国驻联合国大使妮基 海利表示，一个国家践踏人权最严重的行为莫过于拘禁政治囚犯。她表示，有这种行径的国家是不可能取信于世的。

The United States calls on the Iranian government to release all individuals unjustly held in Iran, including U.S. citizens and foreign nationals,and allow them to reunite with their families.

美国呼吁伊朗政府释放所有非法拘禁的人，包括美国和外国的公民，让他们与家人团聚。

1 espionage   

n.间谍行为，谍报活动

参考例句：

• The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
• Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。

2 dissertation   

n.（博士学位）论文，学术演讲，专题论文

参考例句：

• He is currently writing a dissertation on the Somali civil war.他目前正在写一篇关于索马里内战的论文。
• He was involved in writing his doctoral dissertation.他在聚精会神地写他的博士论文。

3 imprisonment   

n.关押，监禁，坐牢

参考例句：

• His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
• He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。

4 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

5 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

6 malign   

adj.有害的；恶性的；恶意的；v.诽谤，诬蔑

参考例句：

• It was easy to see why the cartoonists regularly portrayed him as a malign cherub.难怪漫画家总是把他画成一个邪恶的小天使。
• She likes to malign innocent persons.她爱诋毁那些清白的人。

7 purported   

adj.传说的，谣传的v.声称是…，（装得）像是…的样子( purport的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• the scene of the purported crime 传闻中的罪案发生地点
• The film purported to represent the lives of ordinary people. 这部影片声称旨在表现普通人的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 vehemently   

adv. 热烈地

参考例句：

• He argued with his wife so vehemently that he talked himself hoarse. 他和妻子争论得很激烈，以致讲话的声音都嘶哑了。
• Both women vehemently deny the charges against them. 两名妇女都激烈地否认了对她们的指控。

9 innocence   

n.无罪；天真；无害

参考例句：

• There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
• The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。