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Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton rebranded the Obama administration’s failed approach to Iran this morning on NBC’s “Meet The Press”:

[W]hat we have found over the last months because of our strategic patience and our willingness to keep on this issue is countries are finally saying, I kind of get it, I get it they didn't cooperate, they're the ones that shut the door and now we have to do something.

Unfortunately, President Obama’s “strategic patience” has yielded no results, and as Secretary Clinton noted in December, the Obama administration approach to Iran was an utter failure. Meanwhile, Iran continues its dangerous path towards nuclear weapons as the Obama administration seeks to water down sanctions by carving out special exceptions to placate China’s continued objection. President Obama naively believed he could charm the Iranian regime – yet fourteen months later, as the German newspaper Der Spiegel notes, he has achieved zero results.       

He set out to negotiate with Iran. He courted the regime, sent the Iranians a greeting to mark the Persian New Year, and even sent a letter to revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei. But the end-of-the-year deadline he had loudly proclaimed passed without incident, and yet Iran's uranium centrifuges in Natanz and Qom are still up and running.

So as Iran continues to defy the world community, it is clear this is no time for continued patience.