Brazil, Iran, and Islamist Terrorism

"Official investigations carried out by Argentine, American, and Brazilian authorities have revealed how Brazil figures into the intricate network set up to 'export Iran's Islamic Revolution' to the West, by both establishing legitimacy and regional support while simultaneously organizing and planning terrorist attacks."
"Despite the fact that Brazil has never been the target of one of these terrorist attacks, the country plays the role of a safe haven for Islamic extremist groups, as explained below."
"[Alberto Nisman's 502-page dictum on the 1994 Buenos Aires terrorist attack] not only describes the operations of the network responsible for this terrorist attack, it also names those who carried it out. Consequently, the document lists twelve people in Brazil with ties to [Iran's Lebanese proxy] Hezbollah, who reside or resided in Brazil. Seven of these operatives had either direct or indirect participation in the AMIA bombing."
Brazilian investigative journalist Leonardo Coutinho  

"When he  talks [Qassem Suleimani, head, Iranian Revolutionary Guards foreign arm: 'We are witnessing the export of the Islamic Revolution throughout the [Middle East] region. From Bahrain and Iraq to Syria, Yemen and North Africa.'] about exporting the Islamic Revolution, Suleimani is referring to a very specific template."
"It's the template that the Khomeinist revolutionaries first set up in Lebanon 36 years ago by cloning the various instruments that were burgeoning in Iran as the Islamic revolutionary regime consolidated its power."

Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

REUTERS/Mariana Bazo   Hugo Chavez, right, with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at Miraflores Palace in Caracas in 2008.

Even while a top government official in Buenos Aires accused the murdered Alberto Nisman -- the Argentinian prosecutor who the day following his murder was preparing to present his findings on the Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community centre that killed 85 people and injured many others in Buenos Aires, and the complicity of the government of President Cristina Fernandez in shielding Iran -- of taking illegal kickbacks of state money, the full scope of Iran's plans to extend its Islamist hegemony worldwide is being revealed.

Wikipedia  Remains of the AMIA after the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Reports now implicate the late Hugo Chavez in providing Iranian and Hezbollah agents with passports and travel documents to enable them to move freely around Latin America in pursuit of Iranian plans to infiltrate and fundraise, and take over drug cartels in remote, lawless areas of Brazil, Peru, Venezuela where legal and economic infrastructure and resources are lacking to fend off the Iranian agents' agenda.

Peru's former vice interior minister speaking before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs explained the infiltration in his own country: "Iran and Hezbollah, two forces hostile to U.S. interests, have made significant inroads in Peru, almost without detection, in part because of our weak institutions, prevalent criminal enterprise, and various stateless areas.These elements are particularly weak in the southern mountainous region of my country."

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has constantly repudiated any suggestion that she or her government were involved in helping Iran to evade charges of direct involvement in the bombing in exchange for preferential energy entitlements for Argentina. Her repeated accusations against the murdered prosecutor and sly innuendos attacking his reputation have made her deeply unpopular in her country.

Her chief of cabinet, Anibal Fernandez, claimed funds dedicated to the prosecutor's investigation into the community centre bombing were misused and appropriated for personal gain by Alberto Nisman. The president and other government officials suggest that the man who had given Mr. Nisman a gun for protection, Diego Lagomarsino, Mr. Nisman's friend and aide, was involved in his death. A suspicion that the lead investigator in the case denies.

Judge Sandro Arroyo Salgado, formerly married to Mr. Nisman, is convinced her former husband was shot by someone standing behind him as he faced the bathtub of his apartment bathroom. She had hired independent investigators to conduct an unbiased and expert investigation into the murder of the prosecutor. And she rejects all of the accusations levelled against her husband and the attempted cover-up of his murder, labelling it suicide.

According to The New York Times, conversations intercepted between Argentine and Iranian officials "point to a long pattern of secret negotiations to reach a deal in which Argentina would receive oil in exchange for shielding Iranian officials" from direct implications in the bombing. Those conversation transcripts betray "a concerted effort by representatives of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's government to shift suspicions away from Iran in order to gain access to Iranian markets and to ease Argentina's energy troubles."

The Brazilian investigative journalist Mr. Couthino, has revealed his findings in interviewing three officials who defected from the regime of Hugh Chavez who stated they had been present during a conversation between Mr. Chavez and the-then President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in January of 2007. Their account was the revelation of a plan to coerce Argentina into sharing nuclear technology with Iran, and halting the hunt for the AMIA bombing perpetrators in exchange for a cash infusion to finance Ms. Fernandez's political plans.

Alberto Nisman knew he was a doomed man, that it was only a matter of time. The ploy of having security personnel looking out on his behalf who, on the evening he died appear to have melted away, does not appear to have reassured him that he was in any degree safe from those wishing him dead. But he was determined regardless to unleash his findings and his accusations implicating the government in a coverup to exonerate the Islamic Republic of Iran.

With whose nuclear technology and diplomatic agents the United States is even now proposing to reach an agreement that will in too short a time, enable Iran to become a nuclear power in the Middle East, and reaching beyond the Middle East to its covert contacts in Latin America and North Korea on its way to becoming a 'world power', and achieving the Islamic Republic's fondest aspirations, our wildest nightmare.