Top Iranian leaders and officials say they have no intention of conducting negotiations with the United States. Meanwhile, a strike by merchants appears to be continuing in several Iranian cities.
Although top Iranian leaders say they will not negotiate with the United States, that did not prevent foreign visits with Western officials by Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Muttaqi. Larijani met with Western parliamentary leaders in Geneva, while Muttaqi addressed an international conference on Afghanistan in Kabul.
尽管伊朗高层领导人表示不会与美国谈判，但是他们并没有阻止议长拉里贾尼和外长穆塔基与西方官员在国外进行接触。拉里贾尼在日内瓦与西方国家议会领导人会晤，穆塔基则在喀布尔举行的阿富汗问题国际会议上发表讲话。
In Tehran, Iran's Deputy Parliament Speaker said the United States "humiliated and opposed the Islamic Republic," precluding any "reason for negotiation."
伊朗副议长在德黑兰表示，美国“羞辱并反对伊斯兰共和国”，从而排除了“任何进行谈判的理由”。
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast presented a similar line of reasoning at his weekly press briefing. Mehmanparast says Washington's pursuit of economic sanctions against Iran, in addition to what he claims is U.S. maltreatment of Iranians, mean there is no real reason to negotiate.
伊朗外交部发言人迈赫曼帕拉斯特在每周例行的媒体吹风会上发表了相同的讲话。 他说，华盛顿对伊朗进行经济制裁，以及美国对伊朗人采取粗暴态度，意味着没有切实理由来开展对话。
As Iranian media continued to focus on international issues, the economic crisis inside the country appeared to worsen, according to many analysts.
许多分析人士说，伊朗媒体继续将焦点对准国际事务的同时，伊朗国内的经济危机似乎正在恶化。
Iranian television showed officials inaugurating new electricity plants and saying more gasoline is available, contrary to scattered reports from inside the country that gas stations are running low on fuel and that electricity brownouts are causing major disruptions.
伊朗电视台显示，官员们为新发电厂举行落成典礼，说目前有更多的汽油供应。这和来自伊朗国内的零星报导完全相反，那些报导称，加油站的汽油不够，而电力不足造成了严重混乱。
Former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani Sadr, who lives in exile in France, says an intermittent general strike in Tehran's bazaar reportedly began about 10 days ago. He says the strike began in response to a new 70-percent tax on merchants by the government, and the strike has continued despite major government concessions.
流亡法国的伊朗前总统萨德尔说，据报导，大约10天前，德黑兰市场开始了断断续续的罢工。他说，这次罢工是回应伊朗政府征收70%商品税的新政策。尽管政府做出了重大让步，罢工仍在持续。
Bani Sadr says the strike is continuing because the country's economic crisis has been exacerbated by the government's bad policies. The former president says that merchants see a bleak economic future for Iran because of rising prices, lack of investment, lower oil revenues and the elimination of price controls. All of this, he says, also has been compounded by new economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations and the U.S.
他说，罢工仍在继续，因为政府糟糕的政策使伊朗的经济危机更加恶化。萨德尔说，由于物价上涨、投资缺乏、原油收入下降，以及取消价格控制，商人们认为伊朗的经济前景黯淡。萨德尔指出，除了所有这一切，现在又加上了联合国和美国对伊朗施加的新经济制裁。
Analyst Houchang Hassan-Yari of Canada's Royal Military College says Iran's economic situation is compounded by a growing religious opposition to the government. Pious bazaris, he says, are angry that religious figures they admire are being insulted and marginalized by the government.
加拿大皇家军事学院分析人士哈桑认为，宗教界日益增长的反政府情绪也影响着伊朗的经济形势。他说，虔诚的商人对他们崇敬的宗教人物被政府侮辱和边缘化感到愤怒。
"Through the association that the bazaris have with different religious leaders, they see clearly that those leaders are maltreated by the Islamic Republic, and the Islamic Republic is taking distance from the original ideas of the [1979 Islamic] Revolution, and the kind of society that it promised to create," said Hassan-Yari.
他说：“通过结交不同的宗教领袖，伊朗商人清楚地看到，伊斯兰共和国没有善待宗教领袖，伊斯兰共和国正在背离1979年伊斯兰革命的初衷，背离它承诺要创造的社会。”
Iran's merchants were an important part of the opposition movement that swept Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from power in 1979. Abolhassan Bani Sadr, who was Iran's first president after the Islamic Revolution, says the power of the bazaar has diminished since that time, but that that it still carries considerable weight.
伊朗商人是1979年将巴列维赶下台的反对派运动的重要组成部分。萨德尔是伊斯兰革命后 |