Ted knows what the correct policy toward Iran would be

The newly minted 2016 prez candidate has re-introduced an Iran sanctions bill in the Senate.   Andrew McCarthy likes it a great deal and tells us why: It addresses what really needs to be addressed.

 . . . the Cruz proposal emphasizes that the point of imposing sanctions on Iran was to force the complete dismantling of its nuclear program, not to entice Iran into negotiations that legitimize that program and haggle over its scope. Consequently, the sanctions must be ratcheted up in order to achieve the objective, not eased or eliminated to facilitate the program. The Cruz proposal thus not only restores sanctions Obama has waived and contemplates eliminating; it intensifies the sanctions to impose grave pain on the regime’s financial, energy, automotive, and defense sectors. Concurrently, the Cruz proposal requires the Iranian regime to renounce its sponsorship of terrorism and demonstrate that the renunciation is genuine. Congress would use its power of the purse to deny funding for negotiations with Iran in the absence of: the regime’s freeing of all political prisoners; its payment of compensation to American hostages it detained beginning in 1979; proof that the regime has dismantled its centrifuges and processing facilities; proof that it has relinquished its stockpiles of enriched uranium; proof that it has abandoned its ballistic-missiles program; and certification by the president that Iran is no longer a state sponsor of terrorism . . . 

Ted knows you don't even glance at the mullahs, much less sit at the table with them, without having squeezed them.  It's perfectly fine if they know you are really working for regime change.  You box them in, leave them with no alternative but to see things your way.

That's how you deal with a mortal enemy with obvious nuclear aspirations.