Sanctions were never given a chance to stop Iran

If anyone out there still believes that there was no choice but to make a deal with Iran unless we were willing to go to war, please consider this from Bret Stephens:

All right: So the Iran deal is full of holes. Maybe it won’t work. Got any better ideas? Sanctions weren’t about to stop a determined regime, and we couldn’t have enforced them for much longer. Nobody wants to go to war to stop