Why Iran's President is Always Smiling

Walter R. Newell has some thoughts on why Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is almost always smiling.

It's scholarly and well-researched.  It you've got limited time, feel free to jump to the end of page 2 for the bottom line.

If you have even less time, just keep in mind that Mr. Ahmadinejad is a man with a dream.  Here are two photographic hints:

What does the man above want? What else does this man want?

And yet these photographs convey only a small part of Ahmadinejad's -- vision.

There's a lot for Ahmadinejad to smile about, especially now that Iran is rapidly arming itself with  -- er -- rapidly developing peaceful -- nuclear energy.