But another alternative, more likely in many ways, is that rigorously enforced sanctions will push the Iranians to renounce the agreement themselves and resume nuclear enrichment activity. As Amos Yadlin and Ari Heistein point out in The Atlantic, Iran will choose negotiations over bomb building only if there is „the credible threat of a military strike.“

And while many in Israel and the Jewish community do not want to admit it, such a threat simply does not exist.