ARTICLE: Oil-Rich Arab State Pushes Nuclear Bid With U.S. Help, By JAY SOLOMON and MARGARET COKER, Wall Street Journal, APRIL 2, 2009

I do believe this is the way to go: meet nuclear demand and do it the right way and offer that right way as the alternative to the Iranian route.

Beyond that, extend the nuclear umbrella to Israel and any Arab state that desires it, and rollback Iranian influence at the edges by buying off players, starting with Syria.

You do all that and you engage Iran as a normal state, downplaying the whole nuke thing and getting cooperation where you can.

In short, you act like a superpower.

(Thanks: David Brooks)