March 6

　　As the leading powers meet in Vienna today and tomorrow to address Iran's nuclear program, the most serious problem they face is not what is going on in Tehran. It is that no one on the Western side seems to know what to do about Tehran. The major negotiators at the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting are now looking to the United States, which convinced the Europeans to take a harder line against Iranian enrichment a year ago. Washington is touting its diplomatic isolation of Tehran. But the Bush administration doesn't seem to have any good ideas about where to go next with this isolation. It is a tool, yet the Americans seem to treat it as an end, not a means. As the debate heads into the U.N. Security Council, policy is at a standstill.

　　接下来该做什么？

　　就在大国今天和明天聚集在维也纳讨论伊朗核计划时，他们面对的最严重的问题不是德黑兰发生了什么，而是西方国家没有一个知道该如何对付德黑兰。在国际原子能机构会议上，谈判专家寄希望于美国。美国在一年前说服了欧洲在德黑兰铀浓缩的问题上采取更强硬的立场。华盛顿正在宣扬孤立德黑兰。但是，布什当局在孤立之后下一步该怎么走似乎也没有什么好主意。孤立只是一个工具，但是美国人却把它当成了一个结果而不是手段。争论就要进入联合国安理会了，而政策仍然停滞不前。