Given Iran's size and sophistication, it would at best delay rather than end whatever plans the Iranians have to become a nuclear military power.

考虑到以色列的国土大小和目前的复杂情况，它最好是对伊朗试图成为核军事国家的努力采取限制和阻拦的的行动而不是终结。

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At the same time, the nuclear crisis in Japan will probably further delay their approval by federal regulators.

同时，日本的核危机很可能让他们受到联邦监管机构的进一步阻碍。

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Even a successful military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would delay Iran's program by only a few years, and it would almost certainly harden Tehran's determination to go nuclear.

尽管一次成功的针对伊朗核设施的军事打击将会在几年之内阻止伊朗的核项目，也会毫无疑问地阻碍德黑兰成为有核国家的决心。

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He said he never takes any option off the table, but that such a move would only delay Iran's nuclear weapons development by a few years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.

NPR: Transcript: Gov. Sarah Palin At The RNC

So the squeeze on Iran will not slacken in exchange for interim concessions either through easing sanctions or by scaling back the Western efforts to delay its nuclear programme.

ECONOMIST: Iran and nuclear weapons

Mr. Panetta and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates have argued that a military strike would at best delay Iran's nuclear development for a few years.

WSJ: Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran