An article coming Sundayin the New York Times Magazine, based on extensive interviews with members of the Obama Mideast team, predicts that, in the end, the Administration will accept a nuclear-armed Iran. Roger Cohen reports that, “What Obama’s precise tolerance threshold is for the Iranian nuclear program is in fact unclear. ...A military strike on Iran by Israel is Obama’s least-favored outcome: it would inflame the region he’s trying to quiet and sabotage his outreach to the Muslim world, while perhaps only delaying Iran’s nuclear program a year or two. So deterrence may indeed be the administration’s reluctant bottom line.”
