On the anniversary of the July 18, 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires a bomb exploded on board a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. For President Obama's foreign policy advisers, this event should bring to mind the breakdown of negotiations between Washington and Tehran that hammered a nail into the coffin of Jimmy Carter's presidency. For the Israeli response to this event could push foreign policy into the spotlight of America's 2012 presidential contest. And Iran's response could highlight a fundamental flaw in the White House's counterterrorism strategy: Like his predecessors, the president continues to avoid addressing a key theme among the jihads being waged against the US and our allies - Iran's role as the leading state sponsor of terrorist groups waging these jihads.

The 1994 attack in Buenos Aires that killed 85 was orchestrated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps' special operations division known as the Qods (Arabic for Jerusalem) Force, and Iran's chief terror proxy, Lebanese Hezbollah.