ARTICLE: Ahmadinejad Nominee Is Wanted in '94 Bombing, By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, New York Times, August 21, 2009

I have always maintained that Tehran's record of international terrorism and the support thereof speaks for itself: they know what they can get away with and they're fairly clever about not crossing lines that will get them serious reprisals.

Ahmadinejad crosses a small line here (don't trot out your terror guys for serious face jobs in your government), but is likely to get a big response, simply because the system (like any market) loves to pile on when it senses a competitor has been weakened by events and can be abused in the meantime.

It's a stupid, pointless move by Ahmadinejad, who's either too arrogant and/or embattled to care anymore.

But that just shows what a liability he's become for Iran internationally as a result of this botched "landslide."