If, at that time, the West had been prepared to settle for effectively containing Iran’s nuclear program, rather than destroying every last sensitive component of it, a deal would have been possible. And, indeed, in early 2006, the International Crisis Group published a comprehensive “delayed limited enrichment” proposal that included all of the key features of the deal that has now been signed in Vienna.
如果当时西方就准备满足于事实遏制伊朗的核计划，而不是毁掉其核计划中所有的敏感成分，那么当时就有可能达成协议。而事实上，在2006年初，国际危机集团（International Crisis Group）提出了一份全面的“推迟有限核浓缩活动”方案，该方案包括了如今在维也纳签署的协议的所有关键内容。