If Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what is to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Russians or the Iranians?

如果苹果公司被迫为美国执法机构破解了一部 iPhone 以协助案件调查的话，那俄国或者伊朗也提出同样要求，苹果公司又该如何拒绝呢？

Most are thought to be Iranians.

大多数是伊朗人。

Few Iranians, for example, use Chrome.

比如，伊朗人很少使用谷歌浏览器。

The Iranians have refused.

然而伊朗人对此断然拒绝。

It suggests the Iranians have done a lot of work.

报告表明，伊朗人已经做了很多工作。

And the Iranians are daily drawing closer to the bomb.

而伊朗人每天都离核弹越来越近。

Iranians are also distressed by unprecedented oil rationing.

伊朗人对空前的石油配给感到难过。

The Iranians are not facing an easy situation in the region.

伊朗在那个地区面临一个不简单的局面。

Young Iranians may grumble, wear jeans, drink Pepsi and watch football.

年轻的伊朗人可能会抱怨，会穿着牛仔裤，喝着可乐看着足球。

Thus many Iranians who can't make it to the West head to Dubai instead.

因此，许多去不了西方国家的伊朗人转往迪拜。

Not long ago, a large majority of Iranians backed Iran's nuclear programme.

不久之前，绝大多数伊朗人都支持本国的核计划。

When a light breakfast just isn't going to hit the spot Iranians eat halim.

当这样简单的早餐不能满足伊朗人的需要的时候，他们就会吃哈利姆。

“We can do it because we have oil,” Iranians used to tell incredulous visitors.

伊朗人常对难以置信的游客笑说：“因为我们有石油。

The Russians avoided the word cartel but the Iranians spelled it out clearly.

俄罗斯方面还避免用到卡特尔这个词，但伊朗则毫不忌讳。

Few Iranians would ever again deign to volunteer for the empty pageantry of voting.

很少有伊朗人会再次屈尊投票参加这个空空的盛况空前的选举。

The title is now used by Iranians to laugh at people who cling to this illusion.

这个名称现在被伊朗人用来嘲笑那些抱着这个狂想症的人。

Iranians are too sophisticated to be ruled for ever by a clutch of old men in turbans.

伊朗人太精明了以至于难以被一群扎着长头巾的长老们长期统治。

Among many Iranians, an unfamiliar emotion is evinced for the long-derided Arab: envy.

对长期遭人耻笑的阿拉伯来说，许多伊朗人心里的一种不常有的情感被挑起：嫉妒。

That is why a whole new generation of Iranians, their intelligence insulted, has risen.

正是这个原因，智慧受到污辱的新一代伊朗人全体奋起反抗。