双语时事：奥巴马欲绕过国会搞定伊朗核协议

2014-10-28 10:48:39来源：网络

　　WASHINGTON — No one knows if the Obamaadministration will manage in the next five weeksto strike what many in the White House consider themost important foreign policy deal of his presidency:an accord with Iran that would forestall its abilityto make a nuclear weapon. But the White House hasmade one significant decision: If agreement isreached, President Obama will do everything in hispower to avoid letting Congress vote on it.

　　华盛顿——没有人知道，在接下来的五周内，奥巴马政府是否能与伊朗达成一个协议，限制其制造核武器的潜在能力;白宫很多人都认为，这会是奥巴马担任总统期间最重要的一个外交政策协议。但白宫已经做出了一个重大决定：如果协议达成，奥巴马总统将会尽一切所能，避免让国会对其进行表决。

　　Even while negotiators argue over the number of centrifuges Iran would be allowed to spin andwhere inspectors could roam, the Iranians have signaled that they would accept, at leasttemporarily, a "suspension" of the stringent sanctions that have drastically cut their oilrevenues and terminated their banking relationships with the West, according to American andIranian officials. The Treasury Department, in a detailed study it declined to make public, hasconcluded Mr. Obama has the authority to suspend the vast majority of those sanctionswithout seeking a vote by Congress, officials say.

　　伊朗将被允许使用多少台离心机?检查员可以到哪些地方检查?即使在这些问题上，谈判代表还在进行争论，但美国和伊朗官员称，伊朗已经表示，他们可以接受制裁的“暂停”，至少是暂时性地接受它;这些严厉制裁已经大幅削减了伊朗的石油收入，并切断了他们与西方银行之间的关系。美国财政部(Treasury Department)进行了一项它拒绝公开的详细研究，官员们说，该研究得出结论：奥巴马无需经过国会投票，就有权暂停这些制裁中的绝大多数。

　　But Mr. Obama cannot permanently terminate those sanctions. Only Congress can take thatstep. And even if Democrats held on to the Senate next month, Mr. Obama's advisers haveconcluded they would probably lose such a vote.

　　不过，奥巴马不能永久性地终止这些制裁。只有国会能这么做。奥巴马的顾问们得出结论，即使民主党下个月能在参议院继续保持多数席位，他们还是可能会在这样的表决中失利。

　　"We wouldn't seek congressional legislation in any comprehensive agreement for years," onesenior official said.

　　“多年来，对于任何全面性的协议，我们都不愿寻求国会立法，”一位高级官员说。

　　White House officials say Congress should not be surprised by this plan. They point totestimony earlier this year when top negotiators argued that the best way to assure that Irancomplies with its obligations is a step-by-step suspension of sanctions — with the implicitunderstanding that the president could turn them back on as fast as he turned them off.

　　白宫官员说，国会不应对这个计划感到惊讶。因为在今年年初的证词中，高级谈判代表表示，确保伊朗遵循其义务的最好方式，就是逐步中止制裁——双方有一种默契，就是知道美国总统随时可以暂停制裁，也随时可以恢复它们。

　　"We have been clear that initially there would be suspension of any of the U.S. andinternational sanctions regime, and that the lifting of sanctions will only come when theI.A.E.A. verifies that Iran has met serious and substantive benchmarks," Bernadette Meehan,the spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said Friday, referring to the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency. "We must be confident that Iran's compliance is real and sustainableover a period of time."

　　“我们已经明确表示，美国和国际制裁一开始将是被暂停，而只有当国际原子能机构(International AtomicEnergy Agency)证实，伊朗已达到了重大的、实质性的标准，我们才会解除制裁。”国家安全委员会(National Security Council)的女发言人贝尔纳黛特·米汉(Bernadette Meehan)上周五表示。“必须让我们有信心，相信伊朗是真的在遵守协议，而且可持续一段时间才行。”

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