Iran’s impact in the area accelerated aided by the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez as president of Venezuela. Under the mentorship of Fidel Castro, Chavez escalated their anti-U.S. agenda. Much more influential in Chavez’s ideological radicalization ended up being Argentine sociologist Norberto Ceresole, a notorious Holocaust denier and conspiracy theorist that is anti-Semitic.[11] It had been Ceresole whom first convinced Chavez to align himself with Iran’s expansionism plus the very very first to propose the…