From the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president’s push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States.

As a result, from Saudi News Today:

Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami on Thursday warned the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of a possible US military attack, following charges that Iran was behind a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington.

“Our political officials should be careful not to give the US any pretext to target our security and territorial integrity,” Khatami told the opposition website Rahesabz.

Again, more Wag the Dog at work?

Because: meanwhile, back at the ranch, Mr Obama has another entire set of problems, including words behind his back — from his “own side.” To wit:

(New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman) says, “there is enormously widespread anxiety over the political leadership of the country.” Mr. Zuckerman reports that among Democrats, “The sense is that the policies of this government have failed. . . . What they say about [Mr. Obama] when he’s not in the room, so to speak, is astonishing.”

Any sense that Mr Zuckerman or his newspaper isn’t liberal?

Concurrently, Al Sharpton literally threatens chaos if the “jobs bill” (read: tax bill) isn’t passed:

Referring to Congress, Sharpton said, “If you won’t get the jobs bill done in the suite, we will get the jobs bill done in the street!”

DC, specifically the Obama Regime — no surprise here — plans to take advantage of the resulting chaos:

President Obama and his team have decided to turn public anger at Wall Street into a central tenet of their reelection strategy.

The move comes as the Occupy Wall Street protests gain momentum across the country and as polls show deep public distrust of the nation’s major financial institutions.

And it sets up what strategists see as a potent line of attack against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, a former investment executive whom Obama aides plan to portray as a wealthy Wall Street sympathizer.

Many Democrats consider Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, the greatest threat to Obama when it comes to wooing centrist independents next year, and Romney this week has begun to present himself as a champion of middle-income Americans.

Mr Obama, you have bitten off way, way more than you can chew.

BZ