Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a genius !?

I just read this article by Bradley Burston in Haaretz, which facetiously uses the word genius to describe the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He makes the following argument, "In the West, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is called a lot of names, many of them unprintable. But the time may have come to call him the one name he has truly earned in dealing with the West - genius.
(...) Stated differently, the War on Terror has granted Iran immunity. Ahmadinejad has a Get Out of Jail Free card, and he got it from Saddam Hussein. Then there is this: Ahmadinejad understands as does no one else, the regional value of outrage." The fact that Iraq "is winning" is less due to "Ahmadinejad's genius" than to the recklessness and shortsightedness of his adversaries. Four years ago, President Bush made his infamous axis of evil speech and it is clear that he wouldn't be able to make the same speech today because the balance of power has changed and there is a new dangerous zealot on the block.