To our government, here in the U.S., this is the guy at the forefront of the controversy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4107270.stm
In a state of the union address in 2002, Bush called Iran, Iraq, and North Korea the "axis of evil." Saddam since has been toppled, but the other two countries have not let America forget what Bush said.
We've been under the threat of nuclear war since.