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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S Iran policy has, in all likelihood, already
failed. On its present course, the White House’s approach will not stop
Tehran’s development of a nuclear fuel program — or, as Iran’s
successful test of a medium-range, solid-fuel missile last week
underscored, military capacities of other sorts. It will also not
provide an alternative to continued antagonism between the United
States and Iran — a posture that for 30 years has proved increasingly
damaging to the interests of the United States and its allies in the
Middle East.