伊朗的历史和文化深度使得它在中东拥有一定的权威，除此之外，伊朗也拥有该地区极少数有能力对地缘政治发展态势做出反应的政府之一。
Beyond its historical and cultural depth, which gives it a certain authority in the Middle East, Iran has one of the region’s few functioning governments capable of responding to geopolitical developments.