In a very controversial presidential election, radical hardliner Ahmadinejad became the new president of Iran yesterday. To tell you the truth, I am happy the guy won. Let me tell you why.

First, AJ (his name is too long!!) won because of 3 reasons. One, the economic situation in Iran is dreadful. Unemployment is so high and AJ's focus on economics and his humble lifestyle (as compared to the millionaire Rafsanjani) resonated with poor rural voters. Two, the youth of Iran and the middle class are living in complete apathy towards the political situation there and it appears that the turnout was much lower in urban areas. Three, the mullahs illegally used the revolutionary guards and their feared militias to secure an AJ victory.
http://www.bigpharaoh.blogspot.com/
And linked from bigpharaoh:
"Several Iranians in California, home to the most of the 400,000 to 600,000 US-based Persians, said they were shocked but thrilled at the victory of the Tehran mayor, even though his social and political values and beliefs are diametrically opposed to their own.

"We are really excited, this is a very good thing for the opposition to the Islamic republic," said Roozbeh Farhanipour, an activist of the secular Marzepour Gohar political group and a former Iranian student leader who fled to the United States in 2000."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050625/ts_alt_afp/iranvoteusopposition

It's sort of along the same lines as give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves.
I see what they mean and it's possible, but it's also possible that these hardlines could be successful. I'm thinking more along the lines of only "Nixon can go to China". One could say that the real reason Iranian leadership want a nuke is to get world attention. Now, of course there are much smarter ways of doing this. [But it's not though anyone should expect these people to have much a clue of what they they doing- crazy students and old clerics isn't very likely source of political wisdom.]