Socialist? No. Internationalist? A qualified yes. Ahmadinejad draws upon the tradition of the Non-Aligned Movement, as Arshin explains at <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/aam260406.html>. No head of state has given Iran's right to nuclear research an unqualified support except Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez (and maybe Evo Morales also), and Ahmadinejad knows that: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Cuba from President Fidel Castro, in gratitude for Cuba's support of Iran's nuclear program, the official Granma newspaper said" (at <http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=40355&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs>).
Fidel and Chavez have Ahmadinejad's ears, for the time being at least, and they ought to make use of this opportunity.
What's happening is a kind of re-alignment of Non-Alignment: e.g., New Delhi and Tripoli (the latter is the Neo-Con agenda's sole success story) have moved closer to Washington, and Tehran has moved closer to Havana, Caracas, and La Paz, and Moscow and Beijing have become "wild cards." Serious times, but also interesting times. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>