Creepy goings-on in Argentina

The recent death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman may be mysterious principally because President Kirchner wants it that way.

It seems her inner circle is rather keen to focus suspicion on an aide to Nisman:

“This kid’s situation is starting to look worrisome,” Aníbal Fernández, the president’s chief of staff, told reporters here Wednesday morning, referring to the aide, Diego Lagomarsino, 35.
Mr. Lagomarsino worked in the prosecutor’s investigative unit as an information technology consultant and lent Mr. Nisman the .22-caliber Bersa pistol used in his death, investigators say.

It's pretty well known that Nisman was working on tying Kirchner associates to a deal with Iran that would exonerate Iran from implications in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center.

And it helps to know that around 8o percent of Argentine media is controlled by Kirchner's administration.  The main player that is not in its clutches is the Clarin group.

And it's being implicated in this mess:

In a speech on Monday night, Mrs. Kirchner accused Mr. Lagomarsino of being an opponent of her government, based on an analysis of his Twitter account. She connected him to Clarín, a powerful media group with which the president has long sparred. She based her argument on an assertion that Mr. Lagomarsino’s brother works at a law firm with ties to Clarín.
A spokesman for Clarín said that Mr. Lagomarsino never had any ties to the media group, including one of Argentina’s influential daily newspapers.

Kirchner seems to have a Nixonian kind of disdain for any forces that don't play ball with her:

Mr. Berensztein argued that Mrs. Kirchner’s approach fit a common strategy of tackling scandals here. “She applies the same model to every problem,” he said, referring to issues like Argentina’s debt battle with foreign creditors. “Reduce it to a simple conflict: her, the good person, against all the bad ones.”

Cliff May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies says that we need to understand the backstory to make sense of the recent twists and turns:

Mr. Nisman, 51, was an Argentine federal prosecutor, chief investigator of the 1994 bombing of AMIA, a Jewish cultural center, in Buenos Aires. Eighty-five people were killed in that terrorist attack.

In 2006, Mr. Nisman formally accused the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran of directing the bombing, and of deploying Hezbollah, Tehran’s terrorist foreign legion, to carry it out.

Argentine courts demanded the extradition of seven Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former defense minister Ahmad Vahidi and Iran's former cultural attaché in Buenos Aires, Mohsen Rabbani. Iranian authorities ignored the demand. One year later, Interpol entered the names of five Iranians on its Red Notice list – the closest thing to an international arrest warrant. For the Iranians, it was an irritation and an inconvenience.

Over the years that followed, Mr. Nisman doggedly continued his investigation. Then, in January of 2013, Argentine President Christina Fernández de Kirchnersigned an agreement with Tehran setting up a “truth commission” to investigate who was “really” responsible for the bombing. To call that Orwellian would be another gross understatement.

In July, the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security invited Mr. Nisman to come to the U.S to present testimony. Mrs. Kirchner’s government denied him permission to travel. The hearing took place anyway. An empty chair was reserved for the South American prosecutor.

Finally, this month, Mr. Nisman filed a 300-page criminal complaint with the Argentine Supreme Court accusing Mrs. Kirchner and her foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, of conspiring to cover up Iranian involvement in the 1994 terrorist bombing, of agreeing to negotiate immunity for Iranian suspects and help get their names removed from the Interpol list. Iranian oil was to flow to Argentina in exchange, and Iran was to purchase large quantities of Argentine grain. 

So the creepiness extends to the level of playing footsie with a very evil nuclear aspirant:

According to the Argentine newspaper, La Nacion, opposition lawmaker Patricia Bullrich said Mr. Nisman told her he also had wire taps of phone calls in which an Argentine intelligence agent revealed details about his family to one of the Iranians charged in connection with the AMIA bombing. “He told me that it was an arrow to his heart,” Ms. Bullrich recalled.

Seems credible when you consider that we're talking about a regime that does this sort of thing:

Iran is encouraging its terror allies to pursue the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s children by publishing personal information about them, including photographs of the kids lined up in crosshairs, and declaring, “We must await the hunt of Hezbollah.”

The publication of the personal information and biographies of Netanyahu’s children follows an Israeli airstrike last week that killed several key Hezbollah leaders and an Iranian commander affiliated with the country’s hardline Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iranian military leaders affiliated with the IRGC threatened in recent days harsh retaliation for the strike and promised to amp up support for Hezbollah as well as Palestinian terrorist organizations.

The information was originally published in Farsi by an Iranian website affiliated with the IRGC and quickly republished by Iran’s state-controlled Fars News Agency.

In addition to biographical details and pictures of Netanyahu’s children, the Iranians provided details about the families of former prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon.

Regional experts with knowledge of the IRGC said this type of public threat is meant to intimidate the Israelis and act as a deterrent against possible military action.

“Here, we have organized a list of prominent Israeli Aghazadehs,” or children, according to the original post by the hardline Iranian website Mashregh, which has since removed the article. The Fars reproduction is still available online in Farsi.

Netanyahu’s children are acceptable targets for assassination due to their affiliation with top Israeli leaders, according to the article, which is titled, “The file of the Zionist Children.”

And then consider that the Most Equal Comrade and Secretary Global-Test want to keep playing nuclear patty-cake with a regime up to its eyeballs in worldwide evil.  Couldn't someone from the post-American regime at least ask some hard questions about why President Kirchner doesn't try a bit harder to pass the smell test?