The article linked below (in Arabic) shows how a source text can be translated, or interpreted at a conference, with little regard for its actual wording or intentions.
The Iranian interpreter made major changes to President Morsi's speech in order to serve national interests and protect Iran's allies, Syria and the resistance in Bahrain, by every available means. In this context, the notion of equivalence simply collapses.
This is an important topic in translation studies. See the literature on censorship, translation and ideology, and note that it is a thoroughly practical aspect of the discipline, not a theoretical curiosity.
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