如此一来，如果伊朗政权出尔反尔，就不得不向自己的人民解释，既然美国提出的计划并没有羞辱伊朗，且如果伊朗接受，美国还承诺极大地改善伊朗人民的生活水平，为什么伊朗还没有做好放弃核武器计划的准备？
That way, if the regime balked, it would have to explain to its own people why it was not prepared to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, despite a reasonable US proposal that was not designed to humiliate Iran, and that, if accepted, promised a major improvement in Iranian living standards.