Globe Trot: Did Argentina's president conspire with Iran in Jewish center attack?

ARGENTINA: Shortly before his death, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman drafted an affidavit seeking President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s arrest, investigators discovered.

Nisman accused Fernandez of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center that left 85 dead and was himself found dead in his apartment Jan. 18, the night before he was to present his evidence to a congressional committee. Fernandez quickly called his death a suicide and has moved to abolish the intelligence agency and shake up her government in its aftermath. It looks like a potentially elaborate conspiracy with Iran is leading to an elaborate cover-up. And it all reminds me of an excellent (true story) book, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, uncovering Iran’s role in a 1992 Berlin bombing.

IRAN: Not lost in translation, just delayed, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday said negotiations over his country’s nuclear program are over, but the campaign to destroy America continues:

“This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body, and thought.”

And he seemed to acknowledge his country’s nuclear program is for military purposes:

“Logic and reason command that for Iran, in order to pass through a region full of pirates, needs to arm itself and must have the capability to defend itself … ”

JORDAN wasted no time hanging two Iraqi militants, one a woman, in response to the video released yesterday allegedly showing Islamic State burning alive Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh. Jordan is arguably the last, best Arab nation standing in the Middle East and tensions there are rising, given the large number of Iraqi and Syrian refugees living there and its own extremists.

TAIWAN: Horrified motorists witnessed the crash of a TransAsia Airways flight carrying 53 passengers this morning, and one caught it on camera.

CHINA: Few Christian outreach organizations are so bold about their agenda, and this clear statement from China Outreach Ministries on working with Chinese scholars is refreshing: “We wanted to discover how God is touching the lives of Chinese intellectuals in the United States and how we can best cooperate with the working of the Spirit.”

WE’RE FOLLOWING the efforts of Christians in Iraq’s Nineveh Plain to organize their own militias to fight ISIS.