When a WINEP scholar becomes 'comfortable' with Obama, it shows "how much the President's initial interest in engagement with Iran has eroded"

The Leveretts, here

" ... The third participant, our colleague Patrick Clawson from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, offers a quite different perspective on the Iranian nuclear issue, as anyone familiar with Patrick’s work would expect. But what is so striking to us is that, at this point, Patrick sounds like he could function comfortably as a spokesman for the Obama Administration—that is how much President Obama’s initial interest in engagement with Iran has eroded."