Obama cries 'uncle' on Iran

If President Obama is trying to vindicate critics of his Iran policy, he could hardly do a better job than he is doing this week.

The Obama administration’s desperation and eagerness to make a deal have been quite obvious for some time. And no one has been more acutely aware of this than Iran’s theocratic government. The most recent manifestation of this desperation has been the State Department’s protracted effort to delay release of a report on Iran’s human rights record. That report is supposed to be released Thursday — four months after the deadline, an unprecedentedly late stage of the calendar year. And even now, it is only happening because Republicans in Congress threatened to cut the State Department’s budget.