Smart Power: Khameini rips Obama for threatening Iran with nukes. Clenched fist to commence in 3... 2... 1...

I haven't been keeping up with the news, but I was wondering how President Obama's overtures o' peace to the Iranians are going. You know, when the President said, "if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us."

Anyone know how that Smart Power™ diplomacy is working out?

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed US President Barack Obama on Sunday for threatening a "nuclear attack" even as Defence Secretary Robert Gates said he did not believe Iran had an atomic bomb.

Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iran will officially complain to the United Nations regarding Obama's "threats"... "He (Obama) has implicitly threatened Iranians with nuclear weapons," state television quoted Khamenei as saying... "...the head of a state is threatening a nuclear attack," said Iran's spiritual guide.

"The US president's statements are disgraceful. Such comments harm the US and they mean that the US government is wicked and unreliable."

In a policy shift, Washington said on Tuesday it would use atomic weapons only in "extreme circumstances" and would not attack non-nuclear states -- but singled out "outliers" Iran and North Korea as exceptions.

...[Iran's] Natanz facility has a capacity of 60,000 centrifuges, and Iran has been steadily enriching uranium there for years in defiance of three sets of UN sanctions and the threat of a fourth... enrichment lies at the heart of Western concerns over Iran's nuclear programme as the sensitive process can produce fuel for a reactor or, in highly extended form, the fissile core of an atomic bomb.

Consider this exhibit nine million that my Dad was right. Many years ago, he told me: "Son, everything Democrats touch turns to crap."