And, step by step, the European approach has been vindicated. Critical to that outcome, of course, was the US intelligence community’s reports that all the evidence pointed to Iran having long ago – in 2003 – abandoned concrete plans to develop a nuclear weapon.
欧洲的方针一步一步地得到了证实。当然，形成如此结果的关键是美国情报部门报告说所有证据表明伊朗很久以前——2003年——就放弃了发展核武器的实质计划。