Months after his surprise - and contested - election as President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become a world figure. Within weeks of assuming the Presidency, the mounting crisis over the nuclear issue, his own statements about the Holocaust and wiping Israel off the map have undone eight years of patient nurturing of confidence with the international community by his predecessor Khatami.
Who is Ahmadinejad, what drives this man who affects shabby clothes and a modest lifestyle, who maintains secrecy over part of his past but no ambiguity about his ambitions ?
Direct access to him almost...