President Donald Trump has learned something the ayatollahs have known for 47 years: Revolutionary regimes don’t fold at the negotiating table. Despite Iranian promises at the negotiating table, the Strait of Hormuz is still a chokepoint, Iran is firing at tankers, and nobody in Tehran has renounced the nuclear program.

The optimism of June has rightly faded. The smart move now is to get ahead of the Iranian agenda. And nowhere is the move more urgent than energy.