What is ironic (or perhaps intended) is that Bush had announced his "axis of evil" with Iran while Iran had a vey moderate president and government, and soon after that Iran elected a hardliner president. Not a surprising scenario, actually. I have more fear now that Bush administration had intentions for military escalations in the Middle East right away. They are just making every "useful" enemy there, regardless of a priori fundamentalism level (compare Saddam's Iraq vs Saudi Arabia) or racial "patriotism" (Iran is Indoeropean, not Arab nation). It is almost beside the point what Iraq (that is, Iran) is doing. Europe is just playing the hapless weasel role again.