"Iran Poses a Challenge to All"

The outstanding electoral victory of Mahmud Ahmadinejad represents a happy event for the Middle East, deeply affected by unresolved conflicts, corrupt circles and violent foreign interventions. On August 4, when he’ll take power, his work will be closely watched to see that he’ll be accomplishing his electoral promises and making Iran a model Islamist society. His amazing election will probably make the Arab States change to follow Iran’s model and the United States change its policy.
The first thing that must be taken into account is that Iranian elections are a real lesson of democracy, quite different to those organized in the Arab countries or in the U.S. and Israel occupied territories. In fact, the Guardian Council reduced the number of candidates from more than 1000 to only 7, and although fraud is suspected in certain areas, this does not cloud the authenticity of the elections as Washington wants the opinion to believe. Washington’s statements after these elections are only useful to decry them even more in the region.
Ahmadinejad’s redistribution program will be quite different to that of the accumulation of wealth by the Arab elites. His nationalist policy can be a model for the Arab countries with a defeatist and fearful attitude in the face of the U.S. threats. This does not mean that Ahmadinejad is more of an anti-American than his predecessors were but that he won’t let the Americans intimidate him. The oil income and the good relations with China and Russia make the Iranian resistance capacity greater. The Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis - a bastion against the U.S. and Israel expansionist policy at the times where Rafsandjani was willing to sacrifice Damascus to secure a rapprochement with Washington - may be expected to grow stronger.
Ahmadineyad will resume negotiations with London, Paris and Berlin. He wants to develop the civil nuclear energy in Iran, and considers that the atomic bomb is a "Non-Islamist " thing. Since a U.S. attack is uncertain because of the Iraqi deadlock, the Iranian president still has some more cards up his sleeve.