伊朗最高领袖穆杰塔巴·哈梅内伊周三警告称，在解决华盛顿与德黑兰紧张关系的外交努力仍在进行之际，“稍有投降倾向”就会助长美国的气焰。
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei warned Wednesday that the “slightest inclination to surrender” would embolden the US amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to resolve tensions between Washington and Tehran.
哈梅内伊在伊朗国家广播机构伊朗伊斯兰共和国广播电视台播出的一份声明中表示，这种立场“只会鼓励傲慢的敌人寻求更多过分行为、更多战争和更大胆妄为”。他说，如果侵略再次发生，新的冲突“将呈现出更广泛的层面”。
Such a position “will only encourage the arrogant enemy to seek more excesses and further wars and audacity,” Khamenei said in a statement carried by Iran’s state-run broadcaster IRIB. A renewed conflict “will take on much broader dimensions if the aggressions are repeated,” he said.
这份声明是这位最高领袖在美国中期选举后的首次表态。此次中期选举中，总统唐纳德·特朗普所在的共和党失去了对国会两院的控制权。
The statement marked the supreme leader’s first remarks since the US midterm elections, in which President Donald Trump’s Republican Party lost control of both chambers of Congress.
声明发表之际，华盛顿与德黑兰正进行外交努力以达成协议。此前，美国和以色列于2月下旬对伊朗发动袭击，紧张局势持续至今。
It also came amid diplomatic efforts to reach an agreement between Washington and Tehran as tensions persist following the US-Israeli attacks on Iran in late February.