The Iran nuclear deal announced Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland, is an abject capitulation of Western interests and a sure pathway to a cascade of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.

The Iranian team must be congratulated for an impressive diplomatic victory. Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has achieved the two key goals of Iran’s negotiating strategy: The agreement allows Iran to retain an industrial-sized nuclear infrastructure and it fatally undermines the sanctions regime.