的确，伊朗已经不止一次地表明它能够适应高度实用主义的行为方式。 这种表现不仅仅在于其1980年代与伊拉克的战争中与以色列和美国的联系，及其支持美国人与阿富汗的塔利班武装对抗。
Indeed, Iran has shown its ability to behave with startling pragmatism more than once, not least in its links to Israel and the United States during its war against Iraq in the 1980’s, and in its assistance to the Americans in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.