Well... if TIME can't get the Ambush Bug, they could at least get this guy for Man of the Year 2006:

Ahmadinejad: Iran now nuclear power

Iranian president: Our scienists have reached zenith, accessed nuclear fuel cycle

Yaakov Lappin

Published:

12.20.06, 13:14

Iran is now a "nuclear power," its President, Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, delcared Wednesday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.

During a speech delivered in the Western Iranian province of Javanroud, Ahmadinejad said: " The Islamic Republic of Iran is now a nuclear power, thanks to the hard work of the Iranian people and authorities." ...

"Iranian young scientists reached the zenith of science and technology and gained access to the nuclear fuel cycle without the help of big powers."

Is it too much to hope that President Ahmadinejad has merely failed to learn the lesson that his Good Neighbor , Saddam Hussein of Iraq, has indirectly tried to teach the world?

"If you don't have WMD, don't brag like you do." Even the United Nations eventually gets ruffled.

On the other hand, if Mr. Ahmadinejad's assessments are more grounded in reality than Mr. Hussein's — and how could they not be, given all the evidence we have that Mr. Ahmadinejad's thinking is of the highest rational quality? — then my advice is to invest in Israeli weapons systems, and fast.

More fun reportage:

Ahmadinejad says Israel, US, Britain will vanish – 'this is a divine promise;' Iran demands UN Security Council condemn Israel's nuclear development, place Israel's facilities under inspection

News agencies

Published:

12.20.06, 09:35

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched another attack of Israel and it's allies the United States and Britain in a speech Wednesday morning.

The Iranian news agency reported that, during his speech in western Iran, the Iranian president said that the US, Britain and Israel are doomed to disappear.

"The aggressive forces will vanish, while the Iranian people will survive – since all who chose God will survive and those who distance themselves from God vanish like Pharaoh," said Ahmadinejad in his speech.

"The US, Britain, and the Zionist regime will vanish since they have distanced themselves from God. This is a divine promise," he added ...

On Tuesday, Iran demanded that the UN Security Council condemn what it said was Israel's  clandestine development of nuclear weapons and "compel" it to place all its nuclear facilities under UN inspection.

If Israel refuses to comply, Iran said the council must take "resolute action" under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which authorizes a range of measures from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military action.

... The Security Council is currently debating a resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend its enrichment program.

Is anyone working on harnessing the "blow-hardage" of certain world leaders as an alternative energy source? There's gotta be a way to get a few ka-jillion megawatts out of the Middle East alone.