This news is indicates two things. We are probably heading for a showdown with Tehran. And the elections were probably rigged.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the hard-line mayor of Tehran who has invoked Iran’s 1979 revolution and expressed doubts about rapprochement with the United States, won a runoff election Friday and was elected president of the Islamic republic in a landslide, the Interior Ministry announced early Saturday.

Ahmadinejad defeated Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former two-term president who had won the first round of voting last week and was attempting to appeal to socially moderate and reform-minded voters

There is no way the Iranians voted in this hard liner, knowing full well he would try and challenge the US. They they should also understand he would use that moment to crack down harder on dissenters and freedoms internally.

So it is obvious, with the vote most likely rigged, Tehran is going to try and pull its country into a confrontation with the US. Bad move internally and externally. They aren’t that smart or that popular.