Defusing the Iranian Threat

Defusing the Iranian Threat

No wonder presidents seem to age so quickly -- dealing with the country’s toughest problems every day takes its toll. Many of those problems seem almost insolvable.

Look no further than Iran.

Since its Islamic revolution in 1979, that country has bedeviled American presidents and presented us with mostly bad choices. And it keeps raising the ante. Iranian officials recently admitted something U.S. intelligence agencies had already told President Obama: Ahmadinejad and company are building a hidden uranium enrichment facility near the city of Qom.

The Iranians showed...