Via satellite dishes and the Internet, the West meant something to them other than guns and territory: culture was a potential bond, they suggested, through which some dialogue might yet arise.

通过卫星电线和英特网，西方国家对他们来说远不止枪炮和领土：他们认为，文化是有潜力的束缚，通过它对话是有可能实现的。

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For the sake of peace it is very important that the dialogue between Iran and the west progresses in a more frank and transparent way.

为了和平，伊朗与西方国家以一个更为坦诚透明的方式进行对话是很重要的。

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Nor is it easy to maintain a friendly dialogue both with the West and with the West's enemies.

它想同时与西方及西方的敌人保持友好关系也不容易。

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Israel has been agitated by President Obama's plan to open a dialogue with Iran, while pressing for a one year freeze on Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank.

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Yevgenia Yuvcief (ph) of the Moscow Carnegie Center says even if Moscow is motivated by showing up the west, its dialogue with Iran is more practical than western attempts to isolate it.

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By starting a dialogue with the West, it hopes to ease the intense international pressure it's under.

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It might, depending on diplomatic manoeuvring, open a channel of dialogue with the West, perhaps to European governments if not to the United States.

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