With the latest breakdown in negotiations between Iran and the European Union, the years-long steady drip of Persia-related punditry has become a flood over the past month. Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer fretted on January 17 that the Islamic Republic was "probably just months" from constructing a bomb, and blamed European fecklessness. Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol opined in his magazine's January 23 issue that America should be "holding open the possibility...