Running Out the Clock on Iran's Nuclear Program

"...None of these scenarios are likely. And so what we can expect is a doubling-down on the current strategy: increasing the international economic isolation of Tehran, accelerating nonconventional ways of attacking Iran’s nuclear program, and hoping and working for regime change. These efforts could succeed in thwarting Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. But if they don’t, the next-best solution for Obama is that they slow Iran’s progress toward the finish line to beyond January 2017, when the Obama team leaves office ."