"EVERY option available at this point requires living with an Iran that knows how to enrich uranium..."

Gary Sick, here

“The bottom line for American policy is that the menu of feasible options has shrunk. Every option available at this point requires living with an Iran that knows how to enrich uranium. Continued denial of this truth is self-delusion.

“The central policy question becomes: What combination of arrangements, inside and outside Iran, has the best chance of persuading it to stop short of a nuclear bomb? … .

“The Obama administration cannot restore Iran’s nuclear innocence. Its challenge is to prevent the birth of the next nuclear-weapons state.”

The way to do that, he suggests, is a negotiated arrangement that provides as much transparency (i.e. inspections and oversight by the International Atomic Energy Agency) as possible."