Negotiate with Iran

Stephen Walt argues that we should stop threatening Iran and enter into serious negotiations.  And Thomas Pickering, a veteran diplomat, agrees with him, "It's a serious mistake not to talk to people from whom we are estranged. And it's a serious mistake to believe that military force can solve diplomatic problems as we have found out most recently in Iraq."  As does Iran's Ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Khazaee, "As long as pressure is on Iran, as long as there is a sword on our neck to come to negotiations, this is not negotiations, therefore Iranians cannot accept that."

Of course, there is always the possibility that threatening Iran will reinforce their interest in having a latent nuclear weapons capability, and might eventually convince them that they need to get an actual bomb.