Even the New York Times has figured out that Obama has been checkmated by the mullahs’ deal to send an itty bit of its enriched uranium to Iran-friendly Brazil and Turkey:

Iran announced an agreement on Monday to ship some of its nuclear fuel to Turkey in a deal that could offer a short-term solution to its nuclear standoff with the West, or prove to be a tactic aimed at derailing efforts to bring new sanctions against Tehran. …

Obama now faces a vexing choice. If he walks away from this deal, it will look like he is rejecting an agreement similar to one he was willing to sign eight months ago. But if he accepts, many of the urgent issues he wants resolved with Iran in coming months — mostly over suspected weapons work — will be put on hold for a year or more. Many American officials believe the delay is Iran’s most immediate goal.

By opening the door to an enrichment-shuffling deal and pleading for Iran to come back to the bargaining table, Obama set himself up for failure. He now faces the collapse of his anemic sanctions effort and the evaporation of the last chance to stave off Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons, short of military action — which no one (not Congress, not Iran, not Israel, not American Jewish “leaders”) believes Obama will undertake.

Bret Stephens observes:

In yesterday’s phony triumph of diplomacy, any real hope for a diplomatic outcome ended. In its most crucial foreign policy test, the administration has lost, or ceded, control of the process. Iran is either going to become a nuclear power, or it will be stopped from doing so by military action. Either a war will be upon us, or a cycle of Mideast nuclear proliferation. The administration fancies it can contain all this—Iran’s ambitions, Arab insecurities, Israel’s existential anxiety—via more smart diplomacy. The record so far does not inspire confidence.

But to be clear: either Israel will take military action or Iran will become a nuclear power. It is not simply that Obama has ceded control to and been outmatched by the mullahs. It is that he has made clear that the U.S. will not use military force if needed to guarantee the security of an ally and to prevent a nuclear-arms race in the Middle East. By renouncing the use of force, he has declared the U.S. out of the superpower business. By refusing to confront a threat to us and our allies, Obama will cripple U.S. credibility (the unacceptable is being accepted) for the foreseeable future and leave our allies to the whims of despotic bullies.

I eagerly await statements by American Jewish “leaders” remarking on the collapse of the diplomatic option and demanding that the president commit to the use force if necessary and reiterate that Israel will receive unqualified support from the U.S. in the event of military action and retaliation against the Jewish state. What — you think it’s not going to happen? You think American Jewry is sleepwalking and enabling the Obama administration as it allows an existential threat to Israel to go unchecked? Me too.