Everybody is missing the obvious implications here. We all agree that previous presidents of Iran have been subservient to the will of the mullahs that run the Sharia courts, right? How can this guy be continually making statements and enacting policies that they aren't in line with... I think he's just a mouthpiece (one that happens to agree) but I think his statements and actions signal a willingness by the theocracy as a whole to 1) proceed towards gaining nuclear weapons 2) continuing to provoke agression against Israel (though I doubt they'll use their newly developed nuclear weapons to do this) 3) tell anybody, the US included, to go screw if they don't like it.

Once you join the nuclear club, you can get away with a lot more than you used to be able to (hello, Tibet anybody?)