(Washington Post) Editorial - There appear to be solid reasons to conclude that UN and other Western sanctions and covert operations have hindered the Iranian nuclear program. But as Secretary of State Clinton emphasized this week, the changed timeline does not mean that the threat of Iran's program is over or that the urgency of confronting it is lessened. "We don't want anyone to be misled by anyone's intelligence analysis. This remains a serious concern," she said. "We have time. But not a lot of time." The challenge for the Obama administration, Israel and other allies will be to make use of that window to force a definitive end to the Iranian bomb program. Most likely it will require a fundamental change in Iran's hard-line regime.
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