美国国务卿克里再次启动了美国的中东调停计划，而美国与其最可靠伙伴之间分歧毕露：埃及军方领导人怨恨西方一开始支持穆斯林兄弟会的穆尔西任职总统；沙特阿拉伯担心与美国谈判的伊朗成为更有野心的地区霸权。
US Secretary of State John Kerry has re-launched American mediation efforts in the Middle East at a time when his country’s most reliable partners are estranged: Egypt’s military rulers resent the West’s early support for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi in his presidential tenure, and Saudi Arabia fears that an Iran that talks to the US may prove to be an even more ambitious regional hegemon.